Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 78
"And perhaps break it off," said the mamma stork, "then what a sight you would be.
Who acts: mamma stork · What happens: break off, say · To what, where: story · 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 (mamma stork), 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 | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 break | cc |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 break | advmod |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 break | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stork | det |
| 11 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stork | compound |
| 12 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 what | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 be | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 be | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sight | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off in a quote | infinitive | story | perhaps property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mamma stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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