Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 9
Do you know what dwells in the glass?" asked Ole. "
Who acts: you, dwells · What happens: know, ask · To what, where: Ole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dwells), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 dwells | det |
| 5 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwells | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwells | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwells | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | advcl |
| 12 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | what dwells in the glass | Ole | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ole=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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