Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 76
And stork-papa, who heard the story, snapped with his beak so that it might be heard a long way off.
Who acts: stork papa · What happens: hear, snap · To what, where: story
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 (stork papa), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 papa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
| 4 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 snapped | punct |
| 11 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 beak | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snapped | obl |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 heard | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heard | aux:pass |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 snapped | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | off | off | ADV | _ | 20 heard | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | stork papa | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | snap | past | with Egypt's beak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with beak=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | might · passive | story | a long way obl:unmarked; off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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