Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 105
"Are those the high mountains I have heard spoken of?" asked Helga, in the swan's plumage.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, hear, speak, ask · To what, where: those, Helga, plumage · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 those | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 those | cop |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountains | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mountains | amod |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 those | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 those | acl |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heard | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spoken | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plumage | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 plumage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 swan | det |
| 19 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 swan | case |
| 21 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | participle | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Helga | the swan's plumage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helga=Recipient |
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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