Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 173
Ask not the naturalist; rather ask the poet.
Who acts: you · What happens: not ask, ask · To what, where: naturalist, poet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Ask | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 naturalist | det |
| 4 | naturalist | naturalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 ask | advmod |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poet | det |
| 9 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the naturalist | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent naturalist=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the poet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent poet=Recipient |
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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