Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 53
Ask the reindeer that is fastened up there with a rope."
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, fasten up · To what, where: reindeer
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 (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reindeer | det |
| 3 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fastened | aux:pass |
| 6 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reindeer | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 fastened | compound:prt |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fastened | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rope | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rope | det |
| 11 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fastened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the reindeer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reindeer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fasten up | present · passive | the reindeer | there | with a rope | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with rope=Co-Patient |
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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