Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 50
"There is nothing further for us to see," answered the stork-mamma. "
Who acts: nothing, us, stork mamma · What happens: be, see, answer · 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 (nothing, us, 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | further | further | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mamma | det |
| 14 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mamma | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 stork | punct |
| 16 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mamma | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mamma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | us | further property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the stork mamma | 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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