Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 67
You can fly from them now up high amid the clouds, and will be in the land of the pyramids when they are freezing, and have not a green leaf on the trees or an apple to eat."
Who acts: You, storks · What happens: fly, be, freeze, have, eat · To what, where: high amid, land, green leaf, trees
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | obl |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 amid | advmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 amid | amod |
| 9 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 amid | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 land | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 land | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 land | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 land | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pyramids | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pyramids | det |
| 21 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 land | nmod |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 freezing | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 freezing | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 freezing | aux |
| 25 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fly | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 leaf | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 leaf | det |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leaf | amod |
| 32 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 trees | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 trees | det |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 have | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 apple | cc |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 apple | det |
| 38 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trees | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 eat | mark |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 apple | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | can | You | high amid the clouds | from storks = stork | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | future | the land | of the pyramids | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | freeze | present · progressive | storks = stork | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | present | a green leaf | the trees or a apple | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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