Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 93

We will take it to the naughty boy, and he will cry because we have brought him a little dead brother.

Who acts: We, review · What happens: take, cry, bring · To what, where: song, naughty boy, review

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, review), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cry	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cry	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cry	aux
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 brought	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 brought	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 brought	aux
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cry	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brought	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 brother	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brother	amod
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brother	amod
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	future	We	song	the naughty boy		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to boy=Destination
2	cry speech: express	future	review				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	present · perfect	we		review	a little dead brother obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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