The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 65
‘Ten kisses from the Princess, or else I keep my pot.’
Who acts: I · What happens: keep · To what, where: pot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 kisses | punct |
| 2 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kisses | nummod |
| 3 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kisses | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kisses | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kisses | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 kisses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | I | my pot | else property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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