Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 63
What have you in that sack?" asked the peasant.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, ask · To what, where: sack, peasant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 asked | obj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sack | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | 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 | have | present | you | that sack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the peasant | tree rules |
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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