Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 182
"But wherever did you get all these fine beasts?" asked Great Claus.
Who acts: Great Claus · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: fine beasts, Great Claus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Claus), 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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 3 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 beasts | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 beasts | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Claus | flat |
| 15 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | Great Claus = claus | all fine beasts | wherever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Great Claus | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent claus=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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