Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 61
“How hast thou been able to find thy way hither?” he asked.
Who acts: thou, Death · What happens: have, be, find, ask · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (thou, Death), 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 | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 hast | advmod |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hast | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 8 find | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | participle | thou | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thy way | hither property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Death | 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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