Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 102
"Sayest thou so?" replied Olaf Hase. "
Who acts: Olaf · What happens: say, reply · To what, where: thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olaf), 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 Sayest | punct |
| 2 | Sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Sayest | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Sayest | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sayest | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sayest | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Olaf | Olaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | Hase | Hase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Olaf | flat |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | Olaf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent 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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