Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 19

On the ridge of the roof the stork had built his nest, and there the stork-mamma sat on her eggs and felt sure her hatching would come to something.

Who acts: stork mamma, hatching, mamma · What happens: build, sit, feel, come, hatch · To what, where: stork, ridge, eggs, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork mamma, hatching, mamma), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 ridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ridge	det
3	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ridge	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stork	det
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 built	aux
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nest	nmod:poss
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 sat	expl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mamma	det
17	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mamma	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 stork	punct
19	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 built	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 eggs	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eggs	nmod:poss
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sat	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 felt	cc
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
26	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 felt	xcomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hatching	nmod:poss
28	hatching	hatching	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sure	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 something	case
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		the stork	the ridge of the roof		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product
2	sit	past	the stork mamma		mamma's eggs; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
3	feel	past	the stork mamma not said here			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	would	mamma's hatching		something		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to something=Initial_Location
5	hatch		mamma				nom hatching «process intransitive»: poss=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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