Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 39
"Is any one up there?" asked the farmer, looking up and discovering Little Claus. "
Who acts: one · What happens: be, ask, look up, discover · To what, where: one, farmer, Little 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 (one), 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 one | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 one | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 looking | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 discovering | cc |
| 16 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 looking | conj |
| 17 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Claus | amod |
| 18 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 discovering | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Claus | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 discovering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | any one | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | any one | the farmer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | any one not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | discover | gerund | any one not said here | Little Claus | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claus=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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