Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 3
"That does not please me to hear," said the kitchen-cat.
Who acts: That, kitchen cat · What happens: not please, hear, say · To what, where: kitchen cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, kitchen cat), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 please | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 please | advmod |
| 5 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 please | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 please | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kitchen | punct |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not please in a quote | present · do-support | That | the kitchen cat = cat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the kitchen cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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