Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 73

Then the stork told them all about warm Africa, of the pyramids, and of the ostrich, which, like a wild horse, runs across the desert.

Who acts: stork · What happens: tell, run · To what, where: ducks, desert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stork	det
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 Africa	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Africa	amod
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pyramids	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 pyramids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pyramids	det
13	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 runs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 runs	cc
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ostrich	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ostrich	det
18	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 runs	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 horse	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 horse	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 horse	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ostrich	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ostrich	punct
27	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 desert	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 desert	det
30	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 runs	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the stork		ducks = duck		then	about warm Africa; of the pyramids	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about africa=Topic
2	run	present	the stork not said here			the desert		of the ostrich and a wild horse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of ostrich=Trajectory

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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