Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 20
"I suppose they are of shiny leather?" asked the old lady. "
Who acts: I, shoes · What happens: suppose, be, ask · To what, where: old lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shoes), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leather | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leather | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 leather | case |
| 7 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leather | amod |
| 8 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | shoes = shoe | of shiny leather | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old lady | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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