Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 104
"What tricks have you been playing?" said the old goblin. "
Who acts: old goblin · What happens: play, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old goblin), 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 playing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 playing | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 playing | aux |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 playing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 playing | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goblin | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goblin | amod |
| 13 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the old goblin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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