Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 65
"'Shall I be crowned now?' asked the fire-tongs; so the broom found another wreath for the tongs.
Who acts: broom · What happens: crown, ask, find · To what, where: pleasure, fire tongs, wreath
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 (broom), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowned | punct |
| 3 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 crowned | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 crowned | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 crowned | aux:pass |
| 6 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 crowned | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowned | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowned | 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 | 14 tongs | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tongs | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fire | punct |
| 14 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 broom | det |
| 18 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 wreath | det |
| 21 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 tongs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tongs | det |
| 24 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown in a quote | shall · passive | pleasure | now | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the fire tongs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tong=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | the broom | another wreath | for the tongs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme for tong=Beneficiary |
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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