Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 9
“Am I to hear a fairy tale?” asked the little boy.
Who acts: little boy · What happens: hear, ask · To what, where: fairy tale · 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 (little boy), 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 | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | compound |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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 | hear not said to happen, in a quote | present | the little boy = boy | a fairy tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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