Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 16
"But why does the horse have golden shoes?" asked the farrier; "of course you understand the reason?"
Who acts: farrier, you · What happens: do, have, ask, understand · To what, where: horse, golden shoes, reason · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (farrier, you), 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 does | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 does | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 does | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | ccomp |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shoes | amod |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 farrier | det |
| 14 | farrier | farrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 understand | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 understand | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 20 understand | advmod |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 of | fixed |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 understand | nsubj |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reason | det |
| 22 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understand | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | golden shoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the farrier | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | understand in a quote | present | you | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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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