Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 107
“Is this the Daily News of this evening?” he asked mechanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper.
Who acts: this, connection, Hostess · What happens: be, ask, see, push · To what, where: Daily News, Hostess, large sheet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, connection, Hostess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:253): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 News | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 News | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 News | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 News | det |
| 5 | Daily | Daily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 News | compound |
| 6 | News | News | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 News | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 News | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 News | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | mechanically | mechanically | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 saw | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hostess | det |
| 20 | Hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 21 push | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sheet | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sheet | amod |
| 25 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 push | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 paper | case |
| 27 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sheet | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | the Daily News | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | connection | mechanically property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | connection | the Hostess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | push | infinitive | the Hostess not said here | a large sheet of paper | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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