Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 36
The father brought them, every day, beautiful frogs, little snakes, and all kinds of stork-dainties that he could find.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, find · To what, where: storks, stork dainties
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 (father), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frogs | punct |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 frogs | amod |
| 10 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 day | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snakes | punct |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snakes | amod |
| 13 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 frogs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kinds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kinds | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kinds | det |
| 17 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dainties | case |
| 19 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dainties | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 stork | punct |
| 21 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kinds | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dainties | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the father | storks = stork | day | all kinds of stork dainties obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | could | father | stork dainties not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dainty=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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