Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 34

"No, they will not freeze and fall into pieces," said the mother, "but they will be very cold, and be obliged to sit all day in a dark, gloomy room, while we shall be flying about in foreign lands, where there are blooming flowers and warm sunshine."

Who acts: storks, mother, we · What happens: not freeze, fall, say, be, oblige, sit · To what, where: pieces, dark gloomy room, flowers · 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 (storks, mother, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 freeze	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 freeze	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 freeze	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 freeze	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 freeze	advmod
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fall	cc
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 freeze	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fall	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 freeze	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 freeze	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mother	det
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mother	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 mother	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 cold	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cold	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cold	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 cold	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 cold	advmod
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 obliged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 obliged	cc
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 obliged	aux:pass
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sit	mark
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 obliged	xcomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	obl:unmarked
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 room	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 room	det
35	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 room	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dark	punct
37	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 room	amod
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 flying	punct
40	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 flying	mark
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 flying	nsubj
42	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 flying	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 flying	aux
44	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sit	advcl
45	about	about	ADP	_	48 lands	case
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 lands	case
47	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lands	amod
48	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 blooming	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 are	punct
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 are	advmod
51	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	52 are	expl
52	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 blooming	aux
53	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 flying	advcl
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 blooming	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 sunshine	cc
56	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sunshine	amod
57	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 flowers	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not freeze in a quote	future	storks = stork					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall in a quote	infinitive	storks = stork not said here				into pieces result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	future	storks = stork				cold property	tree rules
5	oblige in a quote	infinitive · passive	the mother not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
6	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	the mother not said here		a dark gloomy room	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
7	fly in a quote	shall · progressive	we					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bloom in a quote	present · progressive	we not said here	flowers and warm sunshine			about foreign lands	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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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