Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 2
“What's the hour, watchman?” asked a passer-by.
Who acts: hour · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: hour, passer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour), 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 hour | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hour | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watchman | punct |
| 7 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hour | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 passer | det |
| 12 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 by | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 passer | fixed |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the hour and watchman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the hour and watchman | a passer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent passer=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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