Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 75
Ask the willow, ask the blossoming elder!
Who acts: you · What happens: ask · To what, where: willow, blossoming elder
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 (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 willow | det |
| 3 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elder | det |
| 7 | blossoming | blossoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 elder | compound |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the willow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent willow=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the blossoming elder | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elder=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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