Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 65
"But may we not punish those naughty boys?" asked the young storks.
Who acts: we, young storks · What happens: not punish, ask · To what, where: naughty boys · 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 | _ | 6 punish | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 punish | cc |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 punish | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 punish | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 punish | advmod |
| 6 | punish | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 boys | det |
| 8 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boys | amod |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 punish | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 punish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 punish | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not punish in a quote | may | we | that naughty boys | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | 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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