Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 19
"Have you heard the fresh news at the mill?" asked the parlor-cat of the kitchen-cat. "
Who acts: you, parlor cat · What happens: hear, ask · To what, where: fresh news, mill · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, parlor cat), 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 | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 mill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mill | det |
| 10 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 15 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 parlor | punct |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cat | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 kitchen | punct |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | you | the fresh news | the mill | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the parlor cat of the kitchen cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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