Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 72

"How did you find your way hither?" asked he; "how could you come here faster than I have?"

Who acts: flower, I · What happens: find, ask, come, have · To what, where: way, flower · 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 (flower, I), 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	_	5 find	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 find	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 come	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 come	advmod
20	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 come	advmod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 faster	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past · do-support	flower	your way			hither property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past			flower			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	could	flower			here	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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