Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 100
Can you lay eggs?" she asked. "
Who acts: you, hen · What happens: lay, ask · To what, where: eggs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hen), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | can | you | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | hen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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