Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 63
There will be a number of very superior storks there with their families, and I expect you to show them that my children are the best brought up of any who may be present.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, show, bring up · To what, where: families, children · 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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 expect | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 storks | case |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 superior | advmod |
| 8 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 storks | amod |
| 9 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 storks | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 families | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 families | nmod:poss |
| 13 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 storks | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 expect | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 expect | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 expect | nsubj |
| 17 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 expect | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 expect | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 show | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 brought | mark |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 children | nmod:poss |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux:pass |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 best | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 brought | nsubj |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 show | ccomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 brought | compound:prt |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 any | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 brought | obl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 present | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 present | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 present | cop |
| 35 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 any | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | I | expect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | families = family | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring up | present · passive | my children | of any | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | may | present property | tree rules |
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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