Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 48
"It is always like this here, and this is how we live in our warm country," said the stork-mamma; and the thought made the young ones almost beside themselves with pleasure.
Who acts: bed, this, we, stork mamma, thought · What happens: be, live, say, make · To what, where: warm country, young ones · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, this, we, stork mamma), 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 | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 here | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 here | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 always | obl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 how | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 how | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 how | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 how | cop |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 here | conj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 how | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 country | nmod:poss |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mamma | det |
| 23 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mamma | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 stork | punct |
| 25 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thought | det |
| 29 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ones | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ones | amod |
| 33 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | obj |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 36 themselves | advmod |
| 35 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 36 themselves | case |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 made | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 pleasure | case |
| 38 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bed | always, here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | we | our warm country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the stork mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | past | the thought | the young ones | beside storks = stork; with pleasure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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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