Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 34
"But how do you know all this?" asked the child whom the angel was carrying to heaven.
Who acts: you, child, angel · What happens: know, ask, carry · To what, where: this, child, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, child, angel), 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 this | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 carrying | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 angel | det |
| 16 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carrying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carrying | aux |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 child | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heaven | case |
| 20 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carrying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry | past · progressive | the angel | the child | heaven | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to heaven=Destination |
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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