Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 7
“Where do you live?” asked the collar.
Who acts: you, collar · What happens: live, ask · 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, collar), 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 live | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 live | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collar | det |
| 10 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the collar | 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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