Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 12
"'But where do babies come from, then?' asked the girl.
Who acts: babies · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babies), 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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 come | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · do-support | babies | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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