Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 205
"Have you obtained an appointment here in the city?" asked the sparrows.
Who acts: you, sparrows · What happens: obtain, ask · To what, where: appointment, city · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 obtained | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obtained | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 obtained | nsubj |
| 4 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 appointment | det |
| 6 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 obtained | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 obtained | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obtained | 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 sparrows | det |
| 15 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain in a quote | present · perfect | you | a appointment | the city; here | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the sparrows | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: 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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