Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 111
“Pray how did you come into possession of this rare print?
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, come, possess · To what, where: possession, rare print · 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 (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 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Pray | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 possession | case |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 print | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 print | det |
| 11 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 print | amod |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possession | nmod | ||
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past · do-support | you | possession of this rare print | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | possess in a quote | this rare print | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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