Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 39
"Come," said the mother one day, "Now you must learn to fly."
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: come, say, learn, fly · 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 (mother, you), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 learn | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fly | mark |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 learn | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | must | you | now | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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