Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 31

"You enter into particulars too much," said the mamma stork, "and the eggs may take cold; I cannot bear such suspense as this."

Who acts: You, mamma stork, eggs · What happens: enter, say, take, not bear · To what, where: particulars, cold, such suspense · 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 (You, mamma stork, eggs), 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	_	3 enter	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 enter	nsubj
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 particulars	case
5	particulars	particular	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enter	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enter	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stork	det
12	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stork	compound
13	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eggs	det
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 take	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bear	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bear	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bear	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 bear	advmod
26	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	conj
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 suspense	amod
28	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bear	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 bear	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter in a quote	present	You		particulars		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into particular=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the mamma stork				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	may	the eggs	cold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
4	not bear in a quote	can	the mamma stork = stork	such suspense		as this	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspense=Patient

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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