Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 126
“How did it look in the furthest saloon?” asked the learned man.
Who acts: occasion, learned man · What happens: look, ask, learn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occasion, learned man), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 saloon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saloon | det |
| 8 | furthest | furth | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 saloon | amod |
| 9 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past · do-support | occasion | in the furthest saloon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in saloon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the learned man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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