Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 85
You speak our language," said he, "what do you wish?
Who acts: You, papa · What happens: speak, say, wish · To what, where: language · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, papa), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 language | nmod:poss |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 wish | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wish | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | You | our language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | wish | present · do-support | papa | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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