Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 96

"What can you want with those three fern rods?" asked John of his fellow-traveller.

Who acts: you, John · What happens: want, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, John), 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 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 rods	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 rods	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rods	nummod
9	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rods	compound
10	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 traveller	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 traveller	nmod:poss
17	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 traveller	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 fellow	punct
19	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 John	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	can	you					with that three fern rods	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	John of John's fellow traveller						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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