Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 33
"Will the naughty boys freeze and fall in pieces?" asked the young storks.
Who acts: naughty boys, young storks · What happens: freeze, fall, ask · To what, where: pieces · 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 (naughty boys, young storks), 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 | _ | 6 freeze | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 freeze | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 4 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 freeze | nsubj |
| 6 | freeze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fall | cc |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 freeze | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fall | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 freeze | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 freeze | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 storks | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 storks | amod |
| 16 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze in a quote | future | the naughty boys | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | present | the naughty boys not said here | pieces | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the young storks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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