Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 9
"But how is it you did not break your neck?" asked the miller.
Who acts: characteristic, you, miller · What happens: be, not break, ask · To what, where: neck · 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 (characteristic, you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 how | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 break | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 how | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 break | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 break | advmod |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | characteristic | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not break in a quote | past · do-support | you | your neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the miller | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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