Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 21
And she asked, 'Wilt thou be buried on the rock, in the firm snow?
Who acts: wife · What happens: ask, bury · To what, where: thou, rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
| 6 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | aux |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 buried | aux:pass |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snow | det |
| 16 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 snow | amod |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bury | future · passive | thou | the rock | in the firm snow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on rock=Destination |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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