Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 4
They do not know that I am her husband; they will think I have been commanded to stand here, which is quite aristocratic;" and so he continued standing on one leg.
Who acts: storks, husband · What happens: not know, think, command, stand, be, continue · To what, where: I, one leg · 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, husband), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 am | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 am | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 commanded | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 commanded | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 commanded | aux:pass |
| 17 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 think | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stand | mark |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 commanded | xcomp |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stand | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 aristocratic | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 aristocratic | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 aristocratic | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 aristocratic | advmod |
| 25 | aristocratic | aristocratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stand | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 continued | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 continued | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 continued | nsubj |
| 31 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | conj |
| 32 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 continued | xcomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 leg | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 leg | nummod |
| 35 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 standing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | storks = stork | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | future | storks = stork | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | command | present · perfect · passive | I | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | aristocratic property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | continue in a quote | past | husband | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | stand in a quote | gerund | husband not said here | one leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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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