Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 74
"What--what were you--were you pleased to ob-" stammered he--and all the clerks wrote down, "pleased to ob-"
Who acts: clerks · What happens: be, stammer, write down · To what, where: ob, Baa · 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 (clerks), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 What | parataxis |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 what | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ob | case |
| 12 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stammered | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ob | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stammered | punct |
| 15 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | ccomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stammered | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrote | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wrote | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 clerks | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clerks | det |
| 21 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wrote | nsubj |
| 22 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 wrote | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 26 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wrote | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ob | case |
| 28 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pleased | obl |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ob | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 ob | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | ob | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stammer speech: other | past | Baa | ob | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to ob=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | write down | past | all clerks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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