Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 34
"Certainly," he replied, and commenced at once, asking them to listen attentively. "
Who acts: king · What happens: reply, commence, ask, listen · To what, where: stories
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 (king), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 commenced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commenced | cc |
| 9 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 commenced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asking | punct |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 commenced | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asking | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 listen | mark |
| 16 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asking | xcomp |
| 17 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 16 listen | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | king | certainly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | commence | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | stories = story | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | listen not said to happen | to-infinitive | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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