Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 18
"Shall we be hanged and roasted?" asked the young storks.
Who acts: young storks · What happens: hange, roast, ask · To what, where: we · 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), 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 | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hanged | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hanged | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hanged | aux:pass |
| 5 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 roasted | cc |
| 7 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hanged | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | 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 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hange in a quote | shall · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | roast in a quote | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the young storks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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