Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 60
Do you know where he is?" she asked the roses; "do you think he is dead?"
Who acts: you, Gerda, Kay · What happens: know, be, ask, think · To what, where: roses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Gerda, Kay), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 where | cop |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 where | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 where | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roses | det |
| 12 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 think | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Gerda | the roses | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rose=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Kay | dead property | tree rules |
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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