Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 12
"Hast thou a lover?" asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on love just then.
Who acts: thoughts, Rudy · What happens: have, ask, be, think · To what, where: thou, Rudy, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, 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 | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 2 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Hast | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lover | det |
| 5 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hast | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 thoughts | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 love | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | cop |
| 15 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 17 love | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 then | advmod |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 love | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Rudy | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Rudy's thoughts | love | then | naturally property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | think | Rudy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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