Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 100
Is not that written in the Koran?" he asked.
Who acts: Allah · What happens: not write, ask · To what, where: Koran
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Allah), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 written | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 asked | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Koran | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Koran | det |
| 7 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | present · passive | Allah not said here | the Koran | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Allah | 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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