Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 32

What sort of a little snip are you, and how did you find your way to the cavern of the Winds?"

Who acts: you · What happens: be, find, sort · To what, where: you, way, little snip

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 (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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 snip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snip	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snip	amod
6	snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 you	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 sort	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 find	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sort	acl:relcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 way	nmod:poss
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 cavern	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cavern	det
19	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Winds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Winds	det
22	Winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cavern	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sort	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		you		tree rules
2	find	past · do-support	you	your way	to the cavern of the Winds	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	sort			a little snip		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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