Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 23
"That is not what I asked," persisted the widow; "I mean, has he a wife and children?"
Who acts: That, young man, I · What happens: not be, ask, persist, mean, have · To what, where: widow, family
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, young man, I), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 persisted | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 persisted | punct |
| 10 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 widow | det |
| 12 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 persisted | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 has | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | parataxis |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 has | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wife | det |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wife | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the young man = man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | persist | past | I not said here | the widow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | the young man = man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | family | 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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