Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 21
"But when will spring come?" asked the others.
Who acts: others · What happens: spring, come, ask · 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 (others), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spring | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spring | aux |
| 5 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | obl |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 others | det |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring in a quote | future | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the others | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: 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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