Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 103
Do you repeat your invitation, General?" he asked.
Who acts: you, General, your · What happens: repeat, ask, invite · To what, where: invitation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, General, your), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeat | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 repeat | nsubj |
| 3 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 5 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 General | punct |
| 7 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invitation | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeat | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeat | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeat | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present · do-support | you | your invitation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | General | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | invite | your | nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=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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