Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 10
"'The stork brings no such things,' the boy declared, 'you may be sure of that.
Who acts: stork, boy, you · What happens: bring, declare, be · To what, where: such things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork, boy, 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 | _ | 5 brings | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brings | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 things | det |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brings | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | nsubj |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brings | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declared | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sure | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | the stork | no such things | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other in a quote | past | the boy | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | you | of that; sure property | tree rules |
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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