Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 53
"Shall we fly down, and pick their eyes out?" asked the young storks.
Who acts: we, young storks · What happens: fly down, pick out, ask · To what, where: eyes · 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 (we, young 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 | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 fly | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pick | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pick | cc |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pick | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 pick | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 storks | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 storks | amod |
| 17 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down in a quote | shall | we | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick out in a quote | infinitive | storks's eyes | out property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the young storks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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