Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 70
"Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma; "but now think a little of your own family.
Who acts: stork mamma, home · What happens: say, be, reply, think · To what, where: little · 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 (stork mamma, home), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 first | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 first | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 first | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 first | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 first | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 first | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mamma | det |
| 17 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mamma | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 stork | punct |
| 19 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 think | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 think | advmod |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 think | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 family | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 family | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 family | amod |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 little | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the stork mamma = mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | home | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the stork mamma | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | the stork mamma not said here | a little | now | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot little=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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