Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 9
"But what am I to do, down there in the tree?" asked the soldier.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 there | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do not said to happen, in a quote | present | the soldier = soldier | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | 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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