Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 20
I should not dislike a walk here with the miller's Christine,' said one--and they flew past.
Who acts: I, youth · What happens: not dislike, say, fly · To what, where: walk, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dislike | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dislike | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dislike | advmod |
| 4 | dislike | dislike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 walk | det |
| 6 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dislike | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dislike | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Christine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Christine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 miller | case |
| 12 | Christine | Christine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Christine | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Christine | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dislike | parataxis |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 21 | past | past | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dislike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dislike | should | I | a walk | here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer walk=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | with the miller's Christine | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent one=Theme with christine=Manner | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | youth | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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