Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 153

Are air balloons invented yet?" he asked of his father, who knew of all inventions that had been made, or would be made.

Who acts: conveyance, father · What happens: be, invent, ask, know, make · To what, where: air balloons, inventions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conveyance, father), 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 balloons	cop
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balloons	compound
3	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj:pass
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 invented	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 father	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 inventions	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 inventions	det
18	inventions	invention	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 knew	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	obl
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 inventions	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	aux:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 made	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		air balloons			tree rules
2	invent	participle · passive		air balloons	yet		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	conveyance			of conveyance's father	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of father=Recipient
4	know in a quote	past	conveyance's father			of all inventions	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of invention=Stimulus
5	make in a quote	past · perfect · passive		all inventions			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
6	make in a quote	would · passive					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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