Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 67

"Don't be angry," he pleaded; "I received nothing, I have nothing at all;" and he seized his mother's dress and would have kissed it.

Who acts: you, boy · What happens: not be, plead, receive, have, seize, kiss · To what, where: nothing, all, dress · 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), 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 angry	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 angry	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pleaded	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pleaded	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pleaded	nsubj
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 received	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 received	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 received	nsubj
13	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 received	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 received	ccomp
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 have	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 nothing	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seized	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seized	nsubj
25	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 received	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dress	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 mother	case
29	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kissed	cc
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 kissed	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 kissed	aux
33	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 seized	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 kissed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here			angry property	tree rules
2	plead speech: request	past	boy				tree rules
3	receive in a quote	past	boy	nothing			tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	boy	nothing	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	seize	past	boy	boy's mother's dress			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
6	kiss	would · perfect	boy not said here	dress			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

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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