Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 86
"Are you ill? where do you live? have you been here all day?" were some of the questions asked by the old man.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, live, have, ask · To what, where: questions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 live | advcl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 live | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 here | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 some | cop |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 live | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 questions | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 questions | det |
| 23 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 some | nmod |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 questions | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | participle | you | day | here property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | participle | the questions not said here | by the old man | 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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