Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 151
"When will Spring come?" asked the sparrows, "for we shall have better times then, and a better rule.
Who acts: Spring, sparrows, we · What happens: come, ask, have · 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, sparrows, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrows | det |
| 10 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 have | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rule | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rule | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rule | det |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 rule | amod |
| 24 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | the sparrows | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | we | then; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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