Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 115
He clapped with his beak, and the Mother-stork clapped with hers.
Who acts: stork · What happens: clap · To what, where: Mother stork
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clapped | nsubj |
| 2 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 beak | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clapped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clapped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clapped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stork | det |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stork | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 11 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clapped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | clapped | clap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 clapped | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hers | case |
| 14 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clapped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | stork | with stork's beak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with beak=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clap | participle · passive | the Mother stork | with Cluck | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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