Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 18

"What have you there?" asked another old magician, who had no name--and that was the best thing about him.

Who acts: you, old magician, that · What happens: have, ask, be · To what, where: name, best thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old magician, that), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 have	obj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 magician	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magician	amod
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 magician	acl:relcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thing	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 thing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	ccomp
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you		there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	another old magician				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	another old magician	no name			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
4	is a	past	that	the best thing		about man	tree rules

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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