Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 90

Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the children who did not sing that naughty song to make game of the storks."

Who acts: we, children · What happens: fly, fetch, not sing, make · To what, where: little baby, naughty song, game

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, children), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fly	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fetch	cc
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 baby	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 baby	amod
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fetch	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 each	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sing	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sing	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sing	advmod
21	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 children	acl:relcl
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 song	det
23	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 song	amod
24	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sing	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sing	advcl
27	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 storks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 storks	det
30	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 game	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	future	we		now	to the pond result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pond=Result
2	fetch	present	we not said here	a little baby		for each	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent baby=Theme for each=Source
3	not sing speech: express	past · do-support	the children	that naughty song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	the children not said here	game of the storks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product

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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