Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 56
Did they speak?" asked the kitchen-cat.
Who acts: miller · What happens: speak, ask · To what, where: kitchen 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 (miller), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kitchen | punct |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · do-support | miller | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the kitchen cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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