Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 15
I say, you Turkish nurse," cried he, "what castle is that near the town, with the windows placed so high?"
Who acts: I, you, castle · What happens: say, nurse, cry, be, place · To what, where: bottom, town, windows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, castle), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nurse | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 nurse | nsubj |
| 5 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nurse | amod |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cried | obl |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 town | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 town | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 town | mark |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 windows | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 windows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 windows | det |
| 23 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 town | obl |
| 24 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 windows | acl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 high | advmod |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 placed | xcomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 town | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | nurse | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | bottom | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | castle | the town | with the windows | tree rules | |||
| 5 | place | participle | the windows not said here | high property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: 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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