Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 14
Where does she dwell?" said the guardian angel. "
Who acts: fairy, guardian angel · What happens: dwell, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, guardian angel), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwell | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dwell | nsubj |
| 4 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwell | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 angel | det |
| 9 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 angel | amod |
| 10 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present · do-support | fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the guardian angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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