Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 16
"Are those the duck's children swimming here?" asked the young sparrows when they saw the feathers on the water.
Who acts: children, young sparrows, sparrows · What happens: be, swim, ask, see · To what, where: those, feathers, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, young sparrows, sparrows), 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 | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 those | cop |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 duck | det |
| 5 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 duck | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 those | appos |
| 8 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 children | acl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 swimming | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sparrows | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sparrows | amod |
| 15 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feathers | det |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | gerund | the duck's children not said here | here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the young sparrows | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | sparrows = sparrow | the feathers | the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |
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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