Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 76
Then the stork remained quite silent, and thought of his home in Africa.
Who acts: stork · What happens: remain, think
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 remained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stork | det |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 silent | advmod |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Africa | case |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 home | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the stork | then | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the stork not said here | of horse's home in Africa | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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