Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 46
"'Yes, and you gave him a hearty smack on the cheek,' said the old man.
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: give, say · To what, where: hearty smack, rain, cheek · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man), 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 | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 gave | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smack | det |
| 10 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 smack | amod |
| 11 | smack | smack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cheek | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cheek | det |
| 14 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smack | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | you | a hearty smack | rain | the cheek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient smack=Theme on cheek=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | 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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