Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 48
"'How do we make it?' said the chief of the elves with a smile. '
Who acts: we · What happens: make, say · To what, where: request, chief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 make | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 elves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elves | det |
| 15 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chief | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 smile | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 smile | det |
| 18 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elves | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · do-support | we | request | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | the chief of the elves with a smile | 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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