Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 19
"But I must be paid also," said the witch, "and it is not a trifle that I ask.
Who acts: witch, heart · What happens: pay, say, not be, ask · To what, where: witch, trifle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, heart), 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 | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 paid | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 paid | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 paid | aux:pass |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 paid | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trifle | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 trifle | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trifle | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 trifle | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 trifle | det |
| 20 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ask | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trifle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | must · passive | the witch = witch | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | heart | a trifle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the witch = witch | a trifle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
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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