Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 40
But an hour had scarcely passed, when the knight stood before the captive pasha, and inquired, "What do you suppose awaiteth thee?"
Who acts: knight, you · What happens: pass, stand, inquire, suppose, await · To what, where: hour, captive pasha, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 awaiteth | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stood | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 pasha | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pasha | det |
| 14 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pasha | amod |
| 15 | pasha | pasha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inquired | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inquired | cc |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stood | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 suppose | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 suppose | punct |
| 21 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 suppose | obj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 suppose | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 suppose | nsubj |
| 24 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stood | advcl |
| 25 | awaiteth | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 awaiteth | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 awaiteth | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 awaiteth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a hour | scarcely property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the knight | the captive pasha | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before pasha=Location | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | the knight not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | await in a quote | present | thee | tree rules |
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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