Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 53
"Have you ever been in the Emperor's stable?" asked the beetle. "
Who acts: beetle · What happens: have, be, ask · To what, where: stable · 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 (beetle), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 stable | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stable | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stable | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stable | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 10 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 you | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 stable | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stable | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beetle | det |
| 15 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | participle | the Emperor's stable | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the beetle | 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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