Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 111
"Where do you come from? and what do you know?" asked the mice, who were full of curiosity. "
Who acts: you, mice · What happens: come, know, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mice), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 come | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 know | obj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mice | det |
| 17 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 full | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mice | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 curiosity | case |
| 23 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the mice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the mice | of curiosity; full property | tree rules |
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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