Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 46
“Have you never thought of being betrothed?”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, not think, betroth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 betrothed | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 8 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | past | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | betroth in a quote | gerund · passive | you not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» |
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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