Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 53

Only ask the Reindeer, who is tethered there.”

Who acts: you · What happens: ask, tether · To what, where: Reindeer

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Reindeer	det
4	Reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tethered	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tethered	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tethered	aux:pass
8	tethered	tether	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Reindeer	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tethered	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the Reindeer					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reindeer=Recipient
2	tether	present · passive		the Reindeer		there			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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