Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 154
"So this then is the way to the garden of paradise?" asked the prince, as they entered the cavern.
Who acts: this, prince, birds · What happens: be, ask, enter · To what, where: way, cavern · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, prince, birds), 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 | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 way | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 paradise | case |
| 12 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 entered | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cavern | det |
| 23 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | the way | then | to the garden of paradise | tree rules | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | birds = bird | the cavern | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cavern=Destination |
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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