Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 97
"But how can I get through the little mouse-hole in the floor?" asked Hjalmar.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: little mouse hole, Hjalmar · 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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hole | amod |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouse | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | can | I | the little mouse hole in the floor | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hole=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hjalmar | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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