Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 27
"What is the news at the mill?" asked the parlor-cat. "
Who acts: news · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: news, mill, parlor cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 news | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 mill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mill | det |
| 8 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 13 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 parlor | punct |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the news | the mill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the news | the parlor cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=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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