The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 86
‘But we don’t at all like being kissed by him,’ said the ladies-in-waiting.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: kiss, say · To what, where: ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emperor), 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 | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kissed | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 kissed | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | aux:pass |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kissed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ladies | det |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 waiting | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 waiting | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ladies | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | present · passive · do-support | Emperor | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ladies and waiting | tree rules |
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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