Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 18
"Is it really true," he asked, "that you do not know what poetry is?"
Who acts: tongue, goblin, you, poetry · What happens: be, ask, not know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, goblin, you, poetry), 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 | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 know | ccomp |
| 18 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 what | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | cop |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | tongue | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | goblin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | poetry | 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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