Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 6
"Which of these shall we take with us to heaven to be transplanted there?" asked the angel.
Who acts: we, angel · What happens: take, transplant, ask · To what, where: 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 (we, 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 | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 take | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Which | nmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 transplanted | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 14 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 take | advcl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 transplanted | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 angel | det |
| 20 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | shall | we | heaven | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to heaven=Destination | |||
| 2 | transplant in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | we not said here | there | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the angel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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