Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 19
The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, I think I do.
Who acts: swallows, stork, I · What happens: know, nod, say, think, do · To what, where: nothing, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows, stork, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swallows | det |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodded | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 nodded | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stork | det |
| 8 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nodded | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reflection | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 reflection | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reflection | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reflection | amod |
| 13 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stork | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stork | punct |
| 15 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nodded | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 23 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 26 think | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yes | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 think | nsubj |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the swallows | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the stork and a little reflection | snow's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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