Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 47
Every one has permission to go and ask her hand, even the poorest beggar.
Who acts: one · What happens: have, go, ask · To what, where: permission, hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permission | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ask | cc |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beggar | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 beggar | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beggar | det |
| 14 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 beggar | amod |
| 15 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every one | permission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | every one not said here | permission not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | every one not said here | princess's hand and the poorest beggar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=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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