Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 22

"It will come when the stork returns, but he is very uncertain, and here in the town no one knows anything about it.

Who acts: weather, stork, one · What happens: come, return, be, know · To what, where: anything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, stork, one), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 returns	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returns	nsubj
8	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 uncertain	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 uncertain	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 uncertain	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 uncertain	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 uncertain	advmod
14	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 here	cc
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 uncertain	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 here	obl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knows	nsubj
23	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 town	acl:relcl
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 knows	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 anything	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	weather				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return in a quote	present	the stork				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	stork		here	uncertain property	tree rules
4	know in a quote	present	no one	anything		about weather	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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