Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 57
"I never ask a question twice," said the beetle, after he had asked this one three times, and received no answer.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: not ask, say, ask, receive · To what, where: question, one, answer · 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ask | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beetle | det |
| 12 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 asked | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | aux |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | obj |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 received | cc |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 answer | det |
| 26 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the beetle = beetle | a question | twice property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the beetle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | beetle | this one | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 4 | receive | past | no answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
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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