Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 114
What then!--Ask the town musician.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask · To what, where: town musician
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 Ask | obj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Ask | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ask | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ask | punct |
| 5 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 musician | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 musician | compound |
| 8 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ask | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the town musician | then | 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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