Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 51
"Can the professor understand the signs?" asked Ida.
Who acts: professor · What happens: understand, ask · To what, where: signs, Ida · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor), 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 | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 professor | det |
| 4 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 signs | det |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 understand | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | can | the professor | the signs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ida | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ida=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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