Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 67
And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, flew to the castle, picked a hole with his beak in the bladder-covered window, and laid the beautiful child in the bosom of the Viking's wife.
Who acts: stork · What happens: lift, fly, pick, cover, lay, bosom · To what, where: little girl, flower cup, hole, covered window, beautiful child, bosom
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 (stork), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lifted | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cup | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cup | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cup | det |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cup | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 flower | punct |
| 14 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 picked | punct |
| 21 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 picked | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 beak | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beak | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hole | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 window | det |
| 29 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 covered | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 bladder | punct |
| 31 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 window | amod |
| 32 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 picked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 laid | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 laid | cc |
| 35 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 picked | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 child | det |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 child | amod |
| 38 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laid | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 bosom | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bosom | det |
| 41 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laid | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 wife | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Viking | det |
| 44 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 wife | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Viking | case |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bosom | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the stork | the little girl | the flower cup | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme out cup=Destination | ||
| 2 | fly | past | to the castle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result | |||||
| 3 | pick | past | a hole | the covered window | with king's beak | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 4 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | lay | past | the beautiful child | the bosom of the Viking's wife | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in bosom=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bosom | the Viking's wife | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=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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