Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 57
"Do you ask nothing more than that?" said she. "
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: nothing · 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, woman), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 nothing | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | you | nothing | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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