Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 19
“Won't there be a tap soon?” asked the little boy.
Who acts: tap · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: tap, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tap), 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 | _ | 7 tap | punct |
| 2 | Wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tap | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tap | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 tap | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tap | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tap | det |
| 7 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 tap | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tap | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tap | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | future | a tap | there | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a tap | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient |
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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