Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 110
"What was the appearance of the inner rooms?" asked the scholar. "
Who acts: appearance · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: appearance, scholar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance), 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 | _ | 5 appearance | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 appearance | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appearance | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 appearance | det |
| 5 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rooms | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rooms | det |
| 8 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rooms | amod |
| 9 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appearance | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 appearance | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 appearance | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 scholar | det |
| 14 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the appearance | of the inner rooms | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the appearance | the scholar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scholar=Recipient |
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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