Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 34

“How have you been able to find the way hither?

What happens: be, find · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 able	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	hither	hither	ADV	_	8 find	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect						able property	tree rules
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive		the way				hither property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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