Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 8

They will hang one, And fry another; They will shoot a third, And roast his brother."

Who acts: storks · What happens: hang, fry, shoot, roast · To what, where: one, another, third, brother

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hang	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	aux
3	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hang	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fry	punct
6	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 fry	cc
7	fry	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hang	conj
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fry	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 shoot	punct
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shoot	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shoot	aux
12	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hang	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoot	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roast	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 roast	cc
17	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hang	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roast	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hang	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hang	future	storks = stork	one	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	fry	infinitive	storks = stork not said here	another	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent another=Patient
3	shoot	future	storks = stork	a third	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme
4	roast	infinitive	storks = stork not said here	number's brother	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=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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