Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 97
"Is the play over already?" asked little Anna.
Who acts: play · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: play, little Anna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play), 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 play | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 play | det |
| 4 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 already | case |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 play | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Anna | amod |
| 11 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the play | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the play | little Anna | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anna=Recipient |
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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