Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 12

She wept and said, 'I wanted to kiss the hen and beg her pardon for frightening her yesterday; but I was afraid to tell you.'

Who acts: child, I · What happens: weep, say, want, kiss, beg, be · To what, where: hen, pardon, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 kiss	mark
10	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hen	det
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kiss	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beg	cc
14	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kiss	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pardon	nmod:poss
16	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beg	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 frightening	case
18	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beg	xcomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 yesterday	nmod:poss
20	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightening	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 afraid	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wept	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 afraid	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	child				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	child not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kiss not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the hen			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Co-Agent
5	beg speech: request	infinitive	I not said here	child's pardon		frightening property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
6	is	past	I			afraid property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
8	pardon		child				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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