Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 36
"Well, you know that in the middle of the moor there is something like a lake," said the stork-papa. "
Who acts: you, something, stork papa · What happens: know, be, say · To what, where: middle · 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, something, stork papa), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 is | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moor | det |
| 12 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 is | nsubj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 something | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 papa | det |
| 23 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 papa | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 stork | punct |
| 25 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | something | the middle of the moor; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the stork papa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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