Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 22
And then he related to her about the stork who brings the beautiful children from the rivers.
Who acts: son, stork · What happens: relate, bring · To what, where: princess, beautiful children, rivers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, stork), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 related | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 related | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 related | nsubj |
| 4 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 related | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 stork | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stork | det |
| 9 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 related | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brings | nsubj |
| 11 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stork | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brings | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 rivers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rivers | det |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 children | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | son | princess | then | about the stork | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | bring | present | the stork | the beautiful children | the rivers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from river=Initial_Location |
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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