Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 201
"The owl and the stork--but they said it was not worth mentioning, and so we won't mention it.
Who acts: stork, owl, we · What happens: say, not be, mention, not mention · To what, where: owl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork, owl, we), 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 | _ | 3 owl | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stork | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stork | det |
| 6 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 owl | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worth | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worth | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 worth | advmod |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | mentioning | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 worth | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mention | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mention | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 mention | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 mention | nsubj |
| 20 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 mention | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 mention | advmod |
| 22 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 worth | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mention | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 owl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | owl | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other in a quote | gerund | owl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not mention speech: other in a quote | future | we | owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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