Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 28
Did you ever hear your papa and mamma talk about spitting?
Who acts: you, mamma · What happens: hear, talk, spit · To what, where: papa
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mamma), 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 | 4 hear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 papa | nmod:poss |
| 6 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 talk | cc |
| 8 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talk | nsubj |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | conj |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 spitting | mark |
| 11 | spitting | spit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 talk | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | you | your papa | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer papa=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | talk | present | mamma | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spit | gerund | mamma not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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