Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 41
"What are you going to do with the tinder-box?" asked the soldier.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: go, do, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 10 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 box | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tinder | punct |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldier | det |
| 17 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with the tinder box | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the soldier | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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