Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 36

He stayed, although he could not tell whether she had asked him to do so.

Who acts: Knud, child · What happens: stay, not tell, ask, do · To what, where: Knud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Knud, child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stayed	conj
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 asked	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	aux
12	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	stay	past	Knud		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	could	Knud		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	child	Knud	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here		vn act-114-1 «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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