Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 42

"Look at me," said the mother, "you must hold your heads in this way, and place your feet so.

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: look, say, hold · To what, where: heads, way · 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 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hold	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 place	cc
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 place	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	14 hold	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive				at the mother = mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold in a quote	must	you	your heads	this way	place and your feet obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme in way=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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