Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 68
"We will revenge ourselves," whispered the young storks to each other, as they again joined the exercising.
Who acts: We, revenge, storks · What happens: revenge, whisper, join · To what, where: ourselves, young storks, each, exercising · 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, revenge, 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 revenge | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 revenge | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 revenge | aux |
| 4 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 revenge | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 revenge | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 storks | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 storks | amod |
| 11 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whispered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 whispered | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 joined | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 joined | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 joined | nsubj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 joined | advmod |
| 19 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispered | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 exercising | det |
| 21 | exercising | exercising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 joined | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revenge in a quote | future | We | ourselves | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | revenge | the young storks | each | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stork=Topic to each=Recipient | |||
| 3 | join | past | storks = stork | the exercising | again | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercising=Patient |
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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