Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 160
Pray who are you, my good woman?" said he; "do you want to get in here too?"
Who acts: you, widow · What happens: pray, be, say, want, get · To what, where: good woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, widow), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pray | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 want | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 here | case |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | my good woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | widow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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