Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 26
Have you not seen Death go by, with my little child?" she asked.
Who acts: you, Death · What happens: not see, go by, ask · To what, where: Death, little child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Death), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 child | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 child | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl:agent |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 child | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | you | Death | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go by | infinitive | Death not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Death | my little child not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
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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