Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 32
The other roses looked after their sister, and asked each other, "Where can she be going to?"
Who acts: other roses, cackling · What happens: look, ask, go · To what, where: each · 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 (other roses, cackling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roses | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roses | amod |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 each | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 15 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 going | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 going | fixed |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the other roses | after roses's sister | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the other roses not said here | each | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | can · progressive | cackling | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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