Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 152
"Good Heaven! what's the matter with you?" asked his mother.
Who acts: Good Heaven · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: matter, mother · 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 (Good Heaven), 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 | _ | 3 Heaven | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Heaven | amod |
| 3 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Heaven | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 matter | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Good Heaven | the matter | with heaven's mother = mother | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Good Heaven | heaven's mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
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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