Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 20
"Does the gentleman wish to be ferried over the Holm?" asked one.
What happens: do, ferry, ask · To what, where: Holm, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wish | det |
| 4 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | compound |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ferried | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ferried | aux:pass |
| 8 | ferried | ferry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wish | acl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Holm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Holm | det |
| 11 | Holm | Holm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ferried | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Holm | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Holm | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | ccomp |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ferry in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the Holm | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: over holm=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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