Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 46

"Why, that is terrible," said the stork-mamma; "I feel as if I could hardly bear to hear any more, but you must tell me what happened next."

Who acts: that, stork mamma, I, you · What happens: be, say, feel, bear, hear, tell · To what, where: me · 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 (that, stork mamma, I, you), 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	_	6 terrible	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 terrible	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 terrible	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 terrible	cop
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrible	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mamma	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mamma	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 stork	punct
13	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 feel	nsubj
17	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 terrible	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 bear	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 bear	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bear	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bear	aux
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	23 bear	advmod
23	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 feel	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bear	xcomp
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 hear	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 terrible	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 happened	nsubj
35	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	ccomp
36	next	next	ADV	_	35 happened	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that		terrible property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the stork mamma			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	feel in a quote	present	I			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	bear in a quote	could	I		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	happen in a quote	past			next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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