Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 46
"I don't want to fly," said one of the young storks, creeping back into the nest. "
Who acts: I, one · What happens: not want, fly, say, creep back · To what, where: nest · 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 (I, one), 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 storks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 storks | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 storks | amod |
| 15 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 creeping | punct |
| 17 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 creeping | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 nest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nest | det |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creeping | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one of the young storks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | creep back | gerund | one of the young storks not said here | the nest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination |
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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