Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 95
"Who art thou?" he asked, "whose outward appearance is that of an animal, while thou willingly performest acts of mercy?"
Who acts: handsomest, outward appearance, thou, mercy · What happens: ask, be, perform, act · To what, where: acts · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsomest, outward appearance, thou, mercy), 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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 animal | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 animal | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appearance | amod |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 animal | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 animal | cop |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 animal | det |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 performest | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 performest | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 performest | nsubj |
| 22 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 23 performest | advmod |
| 23 | performest | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 24 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 performest | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mercy | case |
| 26 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 acts | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 performest | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 performest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | handsomest = handsome | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that animal's outward appearance | of that animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perform in a quote | present | thou | acts of mercy | willingly property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | |||
| 4 | act in a quote | mercy | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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