Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 4
There is a stork's nest on the ridge of the gable, for we cannot do without the stork.
Who acts: nest, we · What happens: be, not do
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, we), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 stork | case |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ridge | det |
| 9 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nest | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gable | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gable | det |
| 12 | gable | gable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ridge | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 do | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 stork | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stork | det |
| 21 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a stork's nest on the ridge of the gable | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | can | we | without the stork | vn act-114-1 «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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