Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 91
Well, what have you to ask me?
Who acts: you · What happens: have, ask · To what, where: me
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | iobj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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