Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 36
"Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in great fright.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: have, be, ask, look · To what, where: knife, Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 knife | nmod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 asleep | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 asleep | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asleep | cop |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fright | case |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fright | amod |
| 23 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | Gerda | that knife | with Gerda | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Gerda | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Gerda | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | in great fright; at knife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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