Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 10
"Never mind what they say; you need not listen," said the mother. "
Who acts: storks, you, mother · What happens: not mind, say, not listen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 listen | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 listen | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 listen | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 listen | advmod |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | storks = stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not listen in a quote | present | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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