Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 53
"What is the first prize?" asked the earthworm, who had overslept the time, and only now came up.
Who acts: first prize, earthworm · What happens: be, ask, oversleep, come up · To what, where: first prize, earthworm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first prize, earthworm), 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 prize | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 prize | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prize | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prize | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 prize | amod |
| 6 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 prize | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 prize | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earthworm | det |
| 11 | earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overslept | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 overslept | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 overslept | aux |
| 15 | overslept | oversleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 earthworm | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overslept | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 now | advmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 came | advmod |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the first prize | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the first prize | the earthworm | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent earthworm=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | oversleep | past · perfect | the earthworm | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | the first prize not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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