Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 26

I can lie up there," said Little Claus, as he saw the roof; "it will make a famous bed, but I hope the stork will not fly down and bite my legs;" for on it stood a living stork, whose nest was in the roof.

Who acts: I, Little Claus, Claus, roof, stork, nest · What happens: lie up, say, see, make, hope, not fly down · To what, where: roof, famous bed, legs, living stork · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Little Claus, Claus, roof), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lie	compound:prt
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lie	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Claus	amod
10	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saw	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bed	det
23	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bed	amod
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hope	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 hope	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hope	nsubj
28	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stork	det
30	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fly	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fly	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fly	advmod
33	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hope	ccomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 fly	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bite	cc
36	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fly	conj
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 legs	nmod:poss
38	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bite	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 stood	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 stood	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 it	case
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stood	obl
44	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 stork	det
46	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 stork	amod
47	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stood	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 roof	punct
49	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	50 nest	nmod:poss
50	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 roof	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 roof	cop
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 roof	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 roof	det
54	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 stork	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie up	can	I		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Little Claus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	past	Claus	the roof			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roof=Stimulus
4	make	future	roof	a famous bed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bed=Product
5	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	not fly down	future	the stork				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bite	infinitive	the stork not said here	my legs			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
8	stand in a quote	past	Little Claus not said here	a living stork and the roof		for roof	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus for it=Attribute
9	is in a quote	past	the roof's nest		the roof		tree rules

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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