Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 115
"Can you never get beyond asking about that?" retorted the woman.
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: not get, ask, retort · 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, woman), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 retorted | ccomp |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 asking | mark |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 get | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 asking | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 12 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retorted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | you not said here | about that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | retort speech: other | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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