Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 16
How is it,' she asked, 'that when you have prayed for daily bread, you always add something I cannot understand?
Who acts: middle, that, you, I · What happens: be, ask, pray, add, not understand · To what, where: middle, something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, that, you, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 it | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prayed | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 prayed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 prayed | nsubj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 prayed | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 prayed | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 prayed | aux |
| 14 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 16 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bread | amod |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prayed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 add | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 add | nsubj |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 add | advmod |
| 21 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 add | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 understand | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 understand | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 understand | advmod |
| 26 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 something | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | middle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | middle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pray | present · perfect | that | for daily bread | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bread=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present | you | something | always property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 5 | not understand | can | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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