Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 29

They are called Pyramids, and are older than a stork could imagine; and in that country, there is a river that overflows its banks, and then goes back, leaving nothing but mire; there we can walk about, and eat frogs in abundance."

Who acts: stork, river, we · What happens: call, be, imagine, overflow, go back, leave · To what, where: mountains, banks, nothing, country, frogs, abundance · 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 (stork, river, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	Pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 older	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 older	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 older	cop
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 called	parataxis
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 imagine	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stork	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 imagine	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 imagine	aux
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 older	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 walk	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 walk	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 country	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 country	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 walk	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 walk	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 overflows	nsubj
25	overflows	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 river	acl:relcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 banks	nmod:poss
27	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 overflows	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 goes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 goes	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 goes	advmod
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 overflows	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 goes	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leaving	punct
34	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 goes	advcl
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 leaving	obj
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 mire	cc
37	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nothing	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 walk	punct
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 walk	expl
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 walk	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 walk	aux
42	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
43	about	about	ADV	_	42 walk	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 eat	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 eat	cc
46	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
47	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 eat	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 abundance	case
49	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 eat	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · passive		mountains = mountain				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	present					old property	tree rules
3	imagine	could	a stork					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	overflow	present	a river	river's banks				tree rules
5	go back	present	a river not said here			then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	leave	gerund	a river not said here	nothing				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
7	is	can · present	we		that country; there		about, walk property	tree rules
8	eat	present		frogs	abundance			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient

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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