Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 37
"Whither art thou leading me?" asked the guardian angel. "
Who acts: thou, guardian angel · What happens: lead, ask · To what, where: guardian angel · 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 (thou, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 art | advmod |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 leading | nsubj |
| 5 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 art | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leading | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 angel | det |
| 11 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 angel | amod |
| 12 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | gerund | thou | the guardian angel = angel | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the guardian angel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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