Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 9
"'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watch to see it come!'
Who acts: roof, neighbors, stork, us, tree · What happens: watch, reply, tell, bring, let, see · To what, where: stork, roof, little brother, us, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (roof, neighbors, stork, us), 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 watching | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 watching | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 watching | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | aux |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stork | det |
| 7 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 watching | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bring | aux |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | ccomp |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 brother | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brother | amod |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 sister | cc |
| 27 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brother | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 to | punct |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 watch | xcomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 see | xcomp |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | present · progressive | roof | the stork | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express in a quote | past | roof | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | our neighbors | roof | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | would | stork | a little brother or sister | us | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination brother=Theme | ||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | watch in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | tree | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come in a quote | infinitive | tree not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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