Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 23
If they do not, the general will thrust them through with his beak, and kill them.
Who acts: storks, general · What happens: not do, thrust, kill · To what, where: storks, beak
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 (storks, general), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrust | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 7 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrust | aux |
| 9 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrust | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 beak | case |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 beak | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thrust | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | storks = stork | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thrust | future | the general | storks = stork | general's beak | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | the general not said here | storks = stork | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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