Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 57
“Does your honor want to cross the ferry to the Holme?” asked they.
Who acts: honor, senses, your · What happens: do, want, cross, ask, honor · To what, where: ferry, Holme · 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 (honor, senses, your), 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 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 honor | nmod:poss |
| 4 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cross | mark |
| 7 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ferry | det |
| 9 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Holme | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Holme | det |
| 12 | Holme | Holme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | your honor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cross not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your honor not said here | the ferry | the Holme | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ferry=Patient to holme=Recipient | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | senses = sens | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | honor in a quote | your | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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