Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 124
"You happy creature," he said; "how I have longed for you! we must take a ride to-night."
Who acts: You, boy, we · What happens: creature, say, long, take · To what, where: ride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, boy, we), 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 | _ | 4 creature | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 creature | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 creature | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 longed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 longed | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 longed | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 longed | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 longed | aux |
| 14 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 take | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 longed | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 longed | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ride | det |
| 22 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | long in a quote | present · perfect | boy | for you | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | must | we | a ride | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=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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