Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 107
"What are yonder white clouds that rise so high?" again inquired Helga.
Who acts: white clouds, Helga · What happens: be, rise, inquire · To what, where: white clouds · 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 (white clouds, Helga), 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 | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 clouds | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clouds | cop |
| 4 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clouds | amod |
| 6 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inquired | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rise | nsubj |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rise | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 inquired | advmod |
| 14 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 inquired | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | white clouds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rise in a quote | present | white clouds | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | Helga | again | 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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