Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 81
And what can the next daughter do?" asked the old goblin.
Who acts: next daughter · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: old goblin · 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 (next daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | 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 | 13 goblin | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goblin | amod |
| 13 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | the next daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the old goblin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent goblin=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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