Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 129
"Who may that young stranger be?" was the inquiry on all sides. "
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: inquiry, sides
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 be | obj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 be | mark |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stranger | amod |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 be | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inquiry | cop |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 inquiry | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inquiry | det |
| 12 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 sides | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sides | det |
| 15 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inquiry | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquiry | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquiry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | the inquiry | all sides | tree rules |
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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