Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 49
"Is there anything more to see?" they asked; "are we going farther into the country?"
Who acts: anything, storks, we · What happens: be, see, ask, go · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, storks, we), 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 Is | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 anything | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 more | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 going | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | anything not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | storks = stork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | the country | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location |
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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