Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 16
"Will you do that?" replied the good angel of the child. "
Who acts: you, good angel · What happens: do, reply · To what, where: that · 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 (you, good 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 angel | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 angel | amod |
| 11 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 angel | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the good angel of the child | vn respond-113 «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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