Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 4
"How light we are!" screamed the young storks in chorus. "
Who acts: light · What happens: scream · To what, where: young storks, chorus
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 | _ | 3 light | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 light | advmod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 light | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
| 8 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 storks | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 storks | amod |
| 11 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 screamed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 chorus | case |
| 13 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 screamed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 screamed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | light | the young storks | chorus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Topic |
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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