Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 162
"Am I to hear any more stories?" asked little Hjalmar, as soon as Ole-Luk-Oie had sent him to sleep.
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, ask, send, sleep · To what, where: more stories, little Hjalmar, Luk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | any | any | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 stories | amod |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hjalmar | amod |
| 13 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soon | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 asked | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 sent | mark |
| 18 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sent | mark |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ole | punct |
| 20 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Oie | punct |
| 22 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Luk | flat |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sent | aux |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 soon | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sent | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | more stories | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | little Hjalmar | soon property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | Luk | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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