Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 67
Is there, in this nut, a pretty little neckerchief like the one Christina has on her neck?" asked Ib.
Who acts: Christina, nut · What happens: be, have, ask · To what, where: nut, one, neck, Ib
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 (Christina, nut), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nut | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nut | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 nut | det |
| 6 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 neckerchief | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 neckerchief | det |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neckerchief | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neckerchief | amod |
| 11 | neckerchief | neckerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nut | appos |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neckerchief | nmod |
| 15 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 neckerchief | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 neckerchief | punct |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | iobj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this nut | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Christina | the one not said here | Christina's neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | this nut | Ib | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ib=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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