Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 61
Let us ask little elder-tree mother about it."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, ask · To what, where: us, little elder tree mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mother | amod |
| 5 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 elder | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | compound |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | us not said here | little elder tree mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=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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