Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 128
"Then will you write a few words to her?" said the boatman.
Who acts: you, boatman · What happens: write, say · To what, where: few words, Christina · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boatman), 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 | _ | 5 write | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 write | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 write | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 write | nsubj |
| 5 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 write | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 write | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 write | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 write | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boatman | det |
| 15 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | future | you | a few words | Christina | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the boatman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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