Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 174
He will tell it thee under the guise of a fairy tale; and the Caterpillar on the cabbage, and the Stork family belong to the story.
Who acts: sunbeam, Stork family · What happens: tell, belong · To what, where: thee, sit, guise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sunbeam, Stork family), 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 | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | obj |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 guise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guise | det |
| 8 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guise | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Caterpillar | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Caterpillar | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Caterpillar | det |
| 16 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 cabbage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cabbage | det |
| 19 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Caterpillar | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 belong | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 belong | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 23 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 family | compound |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 belong | nsubj |
| 25 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 story | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 story | det |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 belong | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | sunbeam | thee | sit | the guise of a fairy tale | the Caterpillar on the cabbage obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient thou=Topic | |
| 2 | belong | present | the Stork family | to the story | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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