Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 222
“You cannot answer these questions?” said the princess.
Who acts: You, princess · What happens: not answer, say · To what, where: questions · 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 (You, princess), 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 answer | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 questions | det |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answer | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert in a quote | can | You | this questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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