Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 27
"She who sprung from the race of the fairies, is it?" cried the mother stork. "
Who acts: mother stork, fairies · What happens: spring, be, cry, race · To what, where: daughter, race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother stork, fairies), 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 sprung | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sprung | nsubj |
| 4 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprung | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fairies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairies | det |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 race | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 it | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 it | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprung | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprung | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprung | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stork | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stork | compound |
| 19 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring in a quote | participle · passive | daughter | the race of the fairies | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | race | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the mother stork | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | race in a quote | the fairies | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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