Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 24
"Where does Paris begin, and when shall I be there?" asked the Dryad.
Who acts: Paris, I · What happens: begin, be, ask · To what, where: Dryad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paris, I), 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 begin | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 begin | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 begin | aux |
| 4 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begin | nsubj |
| 5 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 there | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 there | advmod |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 there | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 begin | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dryad | det |
| 17 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present · do-support | Paris | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Dryad | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent dryad=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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