Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 32
"Will you tell us a story?" said the queen,--"one that is instructive and full of deep learning."
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: story, us · 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 (you, queen), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | 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 | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 queen | appos |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 instructive | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 instructive | cop |
| 19 | instructive | instructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 full | cc |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 instructive | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 learning | case |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 learning | amod |
| 24 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | you | a story | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | instructive property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | of deep learning | 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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