Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 158

If the Stork or one of his young ones would only take me!

What happens: take · To what, where: 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: 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 Stork	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Stork	det
3	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Stork	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ones	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ones	nmod:poss
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would		the Stork					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=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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