Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 104
"What do you mean by that?" asked the man, "and what do you know of the world?
Who acts: you, man · What happens: mean, ask, know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mean | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 know | obj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | by that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | of the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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