Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 16
"Well, how are you getting on?" asked an old duck, who paid her a visit.
Who acts: you, old duck · What happens: get on, ask, pay · To what, where: duck · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old duck), 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 | _ | 7 getting | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 getting | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 getting | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 getting | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 duck | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 14 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 paid | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 paid | nsubj |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 duck | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 paid | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 visit | det |
| 20 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paid | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a old duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay | past | a old duck | duck | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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