Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 55
"A letter for you!" said Rudy; "who do you wish to write to?"
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: say, wish, write · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 letter | nmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wish | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 write | mark |
| 17 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wish | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 write | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | write not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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