Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 58
"What have I thought of?" asked the princess, of John.
Who acts: princess · What happens: think, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thought | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 John | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 John | case |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 princess | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess | 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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