Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 41
"Who are these two?" asked the Snow Man of the yard-dog. "
What happens: be, ask · To what, where: two, Snow Man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 two | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 two | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 two | cop |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 asked | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 two | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Man | det |
| 10 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | compound |
| 11 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dog | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 yard | punct |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this two | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Snow Man of the yard dog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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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