Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 176
He asked her what was the matter; but what she said he could not understand.
Who acts: Ib, girl · What happens: ask, say, not understand · To what, where: girl · 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 (Ib, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 understand | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 understand | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 understand | advmod |
| 16 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ib | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not understand | could | Ib | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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