Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 49
"Oh no, no," said the young stork, jumping out on the roof with the others; and now they were all attentive, and by the third day could fly a little.
Who acts: young stork, storks · What happens: say, jump out, be, fly · To what, where: roof, little · 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 (young stork, storks), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stork | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stork | amod |
| 11 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumping | punct |
| 13 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 jumping | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 roof | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumping | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 jumping | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 attentive | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 attentive | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 attentive | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 attentive | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 attentive | cop |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 attentive | advmod |
| 27 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fly | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fly | cc |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 32 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 day | amod |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fly | obl |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fly | aux |
| 35 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 little | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump out | gerund | the young stork not said here | the roof | with the others | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | storks = stork | now | all, attentive property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fly | could | the young stork not said here | a little | day | 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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