Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 91

"But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to him?" cried the young storks.

Who acts: naughty boy, we, young storks · What happens: begin, do, cry · To what, where: song, naughty boy, general · 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 (naughty boy, we, young 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	_	5 boy	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 boy	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 began	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 boy	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 storks	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 storks	amod
24	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cried	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	past	the naughty boy	the song		first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
2	do in a quote	shall	we	the naughty boy	general		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	past	the young storks				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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