Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 76
"The child is mine," she answered; "I can murder him if I like, and you too, Giannina."
Who acts: child, Felicita · What happens: be, answer, murder, like · To what, where: Felicita, boy · 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 (child, Felicita), 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 mine | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mine | cop |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 murder | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 murder | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 murder | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 murder | aux |
| 14 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 murder | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 like | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 murder | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Giannina | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Giannina | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 Giannina | nsubj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 Giannina | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Giannina | punct |
| 24 | Giannina | Giannina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Giannina | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Giannina | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the child | Felicita | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Felicita | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | murder in a quote | can | Felicita | boy | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Felicita | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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