Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 38
You are surely Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter," cried he; "will you give me a kiss?"
Who acts: You, Annette · What happens: be, cry, give · To what, where: Annette, Maiden, kiss, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Annette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Annette | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Annette | cop |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 Annette | advmod |
| 4 | Annette | Annette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 schoolmaster | det |
| 7 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 schoolmaster | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Annette | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Annette | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kiss | det |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | Maiden | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | future | you | a kiss | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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