Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 4
May I venture to ask your name?"
Who acts: I, your · What happens: venture, ask, name · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 venture | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 venture | nsubj |
| 3 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 venture | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 venture | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | may | I | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | your name | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | name | your | nom name «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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