Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 65
People always say the stork brings the little ones; I will do so in earnest this time.
Who acts: People, stork, I · What happens: say, bring, do · To what, where: little ones, earnest · 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 (People, stork, I), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stork | det |
| 5 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brings | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 earnest | case |
| 16 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 do | obl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | the stork | the little ones | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | future | I | earnest | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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