Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 49
"Why, what have you found this time?" inquired the brothers.
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: find, inquire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers), 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 | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 found | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 found | obj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 inquired | parataxis |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brothers | det |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inquired | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | you | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the brothers | 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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