Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 67
The tea-urn was now asked to sing, but she said she had a cold, and could not sing without boiling heat.
Who acts: tea urn, cutter · What happens: ask, sing, say, have, not sing, boil · To what, where: tea urn, cold, heat · 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 (tea urn, cutter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 urn | det |
| 2 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 urn | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 tea | punct |
| 4 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 asked | advmod |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sing | mark |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cold | det |
| 17 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sing | cc |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sing | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 sing | advmod |
| 22 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | conj |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 boiling | mark |
| 24 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sing | advcl |
| 25 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boiling | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the tea urn | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tea urn not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | cutter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | cutter | a cold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not sing speech: express | could | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | boil | gerund | heat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
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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