Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 75
"But, by what time can I be one?" asked he.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: one, Easter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | can | I | one | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | one | Easter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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