Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 144

"And when will Spring come?" asked Winter.

Who acts: Spring · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: Winter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spring), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	Spring	Spring	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	Spring						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			Winter				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent winter=Recipient 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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