Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 22
"Then," replied the mother, "all the storks in the country will assemble together, and go through their autumn manoeuvres, so that it is very important for every one to know how to fly properly.
Who acts: mother, storks, it · What happens: reply, assemble, go, be, know, fly · To what, where: mother, autumn manoeuvres · 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, storks, it), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 assemble | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 assemble | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 storks | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storks | det |
| 12 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 assemble | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 storks | nmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 assemble | aux |
| 17 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mother | acl:relcl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 assemble | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 manoeuvres | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 manoeuvres | nmod:poss |
| 24 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 manoeuvres | compound |
| 25 | manoeuvres | manoeuvre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 important | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 important | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 important | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 important | cop |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 important | advmod |
| 32 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 go | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 important | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 know | mark |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 important | csubj |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 fly | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 fly | mark |
| 40 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 know | ccomp |
| 41 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 40 fly | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the mother | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | assemble in a quote | future | all storks in the country | the mother not said here | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | storks's autumn manoeuvres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through manoeuvre=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | it | for every one; important property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | properly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | manoeuvre in a quote | storks = stork | nom manoeuvre «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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