Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 117

“May I ask with whom I have the pleasure of speaking?” asked the Councillor.

Who acts: pleasure · What happens: ask, have, speak · To what, where: pleasure, Councillor · 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 (pleasure), 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	_	4 ask	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 whom	case
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ask	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 whom	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pleasure	det
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 speaking	mark
12	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 asked	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 speaking	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 speaking	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pleasure	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Councillor	det
17	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asked	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	may	the pleasure = pleasure			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present	the pleasure = pleasure	the pleasure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
3	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	the pleasure not said here		the Councillor	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient

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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