Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 86

And then they pecked at the bird with their little beaks so that it was impossible for her to get into the nest; she was so exhausted that she couldn't even say "Peep!" much less "I am your own mother!"

Who acts: eye, mother · What happens: peck, be, get, not say · To what, where: nest, Peep, own mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 pecked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 pecked	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pecked	nsubj
4	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pecked	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 beaks	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beaks	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beaks	amod
11	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pecked	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 impossible	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 impossible	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 impossible	cop
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pecked	conj
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 get	mark
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 impossible	csubj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 nest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nest	det
23	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 exhausted	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 exhausted	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 exhausted	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 exhausted	advmod
28	exhausted	exhausted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pecked	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 say	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 say	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 say	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 say	advmod
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 say	advmod
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 exhausted	advcl
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Peep	punct
36	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 Peep	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Peep	punct
39	much	much	ADV	_	40 less	advmod
40	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 mother	advmod
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 mother	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 mother	nsubj
43	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 mother	cop
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mother	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 mother	amod
46	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 exhausted	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pecked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past	eye			then	at the bird; with eye's little beaks	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at bird=Patient with beak=Instrument
2	is	past	eye not said here				impossible property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	mother		the nest			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination
4	is	past	mother				exhausted property	tree rules
5	not say speech: express	could	mother	Peep				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peep=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present	mother	your own mother			less 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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