Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 80
"How did you come here, my sweet child?" he asked.
Who acts: you, huntsman · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: sweet child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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, huntsman), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past · do-support | you | my sweet child | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | huntsman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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