Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 15
Are you really going away so soon?" asked the clerk. "
Who acts: you · What happens: go away, ask · To what, where: clerk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 going | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clerk | det |
| 12 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present · progressive | you | away, soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the clerk | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent clerk=Recipient 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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