Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 72
To be sure, storks cannot be expected to know how old children and grown-up people are.
Who acts: storks · What happens: be, not expect, know, grow up · To what, where: storks, old children
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 (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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expected | punct |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 expected | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expected | aux:pass |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sure | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expected | xcomp |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 people | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 grown | compound:prt |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 children | conj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not expect | can · passive | storks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | storks not said here | old children and grown people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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