Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 13

The mother stork comforted her young ones, and told them not to mind. "

Who acts: mother stork · What happens: comfort, tell, not mind · To what, where: mother, storks · 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 (mother 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stork	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stork	compound
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	nsubj
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comforted	obj
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comforted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mind	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 mind	mark
14	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	comfort	past	the mother stork	mother		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer one=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	the mother stork not said here		storks = stork	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not mind not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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