Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 14

See," she said, "How quiet your father stands, although he is only on one leg."

Who acts: you, mother, father · What happens: see, say, stand, be · To what, where: one leg · 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 (you, mother, father), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 See	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quiet	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quiet	punct
8	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 quiet	advmod
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	nsubj
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quiet	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leg	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	20 leg	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leg	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 leg	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 leg	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 leg	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 leg	nummod
20	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stand	present	your father		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	father	one leg	tree rules

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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