Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 63
"It is very easy to ask that," replied the crow, "but how are we to manage it?
Who acts: crow, we · What happens: be, ask, reply · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, we), 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 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 manage | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 manage | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 manage | cop |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 manage | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 manage | mark |
| 21 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 manage | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the crow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | manage 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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