Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 66
"Does a stove look beautiful?" asked the Snow Man, "is it at all like me?"
Who acts: stove, Snow Man · What happens: look, ask · 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: who acts (stove, Snow Man), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stove | det |
| 4 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Man | det |
| 11 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | compound |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 all | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 all | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · do-support | a stove | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Snow Man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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