Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 15
"But we are very much frightened," said the young storks, and they drew back their heads into the nests.
Who acts: young storks, storks · What happens: frighten, say, draw back · To what, where: we, heads, nests · 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 (young storks, storks), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 frightened | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 storks | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 storks | amod |
| 13 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 nests | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nests | det |
| 23 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten in a quote | present · passive | we | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young storks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw back | past | storks = stork | storks's heads | into the nests result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent head=Patient into nest=Result |
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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