Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 38
"What are you talking of there?" asked the Dryad. "
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: talk, 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dryad), 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 talking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 talking | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 there | case |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 talking | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dryad | det |
| 12 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | the Dryad = dryad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | 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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