Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 44

"Have you a passport?" asked the rat, "give it to me at once."

Who acts: you, rat · What happens: have, ask, give · To what, where: passport, rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rat), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 passport	det
5	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rat	det
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 give	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	a passport		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passport=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the rat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		rat	the rat = rat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient at once=Asset

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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