Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 87
"Who is that black domino with whom you were dancing, Emily?" asked the General's lady.
Who acts: you, lady · What happens: be, dance, ask · To what, where: black domino · 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, lady), 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 | _ | 6 domino | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 domino | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 domino | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 domino | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 domino | amod |
| 6 | domino | domino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 domino | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dancing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dancing | aux |
| 11 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 whom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Emily | punct |
| 13 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 domino | appos |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 Emily | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Emily | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 General | det |
| 18 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lady | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 General | case |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that black domino | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | past · progressive | you | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the General's lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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