Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 145
"Shall I tell you news, Peter?" she asked when she came home. "
Who acts: Peter · What happens: tell, ask, come · To what, where: news, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Peter), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | INTJ | _ | 4 tell | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Peter | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Peter | news | you | Peter obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Peter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Peter | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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