Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 1
Did you ever hear the story of the old street lamp?
Who acts: you · What happens: hear · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lamp | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lamp | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lamp | amod |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lamp | compound |
| 11 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | you | the story of the old street lamp | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=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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