Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 9

"Just hear what those boys are singing," said the young storks; "they say we shall be hanged and roasted."

Who acts: you, boys, young storks, storks · What happens: hear, sing, say, hange, roast · To what, where: we · 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 (you, boys, young storks, 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	_	3 hear	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 hear	advmod
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hear	obj
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 singing	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 singing	aux
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storks	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 storks	amod
14	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hanged	nsubj:pass
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hanged	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 hanged	aux:pass
22	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 say	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 roasted	cc
24	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hanged	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	that boys		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the young storks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	storks = stork		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hange in a quote	shall · passive		we	tree rules
6	roast in a quote	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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