Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 37

Did you hear him read aloud what I had written down?"

Who acts: you, pen, I · What happens: hear, read, write down · To what, where: pen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pen, 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	xcomp
6	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	5 read	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 written	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 written	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 written	aux
10	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 read	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 written	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	you	pen		tree rules
2	read	infinitive	pen not said here		aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write down	past · perfect	I			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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