Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 72

The cuckoos and the nightingale are already gone, and I heard the quails say they should go too as soon as the wind was favorable.

Who acts: cuckoos, I, quails, wind · What happens: be, hear, say, go · 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 (cuckoos, I, quails, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cuckoos	det
2	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nightingale	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nightingale	det
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuckoos	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 quails	det
14	quails	quail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
19	too	too	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 go	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 favorable	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 favorable	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 favorable	cop
26	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soon	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cuckoos and the nightingale	gone property	tree rules
2	hear	past	I		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	the quails		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	should	quails = quail	soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the wind	favorable property	tree rules

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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