Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 20
I will teach you to fly, and when you have learnt, we will fly into the meadows, and pay a visit to the frogs, who will bow themselves to us in the water, and cry 'Croak, croak,' and then we shall eat them up; that will be fun."
Who acts: I, you, we, that · What happens: teach, fly, learn, pay, bow, cry · To what, where: you, meadows, visit, frogs, us, water
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 (I, you, we, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | aux |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 teach | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fly | mark |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teach | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fly | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 learnt | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 learnt | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 learnt | aux |
| 12 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 fly | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learnt | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fly | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | aux |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teach | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 meadows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meadows | det |
| 19 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fly | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pay | cc |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 visit | det |
| 24 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 frogs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 frogs | det |
| 27 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pay | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bow | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 bow | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 bow | aux |
| 31 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pay | conj |
| 32 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 bow | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 us | case |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 bow | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 water | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bow | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cry | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cry | cc |
| 40 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 pay | parataxis |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 Croak | punct |
| 42 | Croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cry | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 croak | punct |
| 44 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Croak | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Croak | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 Croak | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 eat | cc |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 eat | advmod |
| 49 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 eat | nsubj |
| 50 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 eat | aux |
| 51 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 cry | conj |
| 52 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 eat | obj |
| 53 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 eat | compound:prt |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 fun | punct |
| 55 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 58 fun | nsubj |
| 56 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 fun | aux |
| 57 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 fun | cop |
| 58 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teach | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | present · perfect | you | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fly | future | we | into the meadows result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into meadow=Result | ||||
| 5 | pay | infinitive | a visit | to the frogs | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | ||||
| 6 | bow | future | frogs = frog | us | the water | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic to we=Recipient | |||
| 7 | cry speech: express | infinitive | Croak and croak | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=Topic | |||||
| 8 | eat up | shall | we | frogs = frog | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 9 | is | future | that | fun property | 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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