Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 32
The stork meant snow, but she could not explain it in any other way.
Who acts: stork, h · What happens: mean, not explain · To what, where: snow, other way
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, h), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 explain | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 explain | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 explain | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 explain | advmod |
| 10 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meant | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 explain | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 way | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | the stork | snow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not explain speech: assert | could | h | snow | any other way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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