Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 38
"Yes, what I gave you to write," retorted the inkstand. "
Who acts: inkstand · What happens: give, write, retort · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (inkstand), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 write | mark |
| 9 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
| 12 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inkstand | det |
| 14 | inkstand | inkstand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retorted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | the inkstand = inkstand | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write in a quote | to-infinitive | the inkstand = inkstand not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | retort speech: other | past | the inkstand | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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