Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 132
What shall I hear now, I wonder?”
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, wonder
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 hear | obj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hear | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wonder | nsubj |
| 8 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | shall | I | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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