Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 80

"Yes, I know," said the stork-papa; "but to-morrow I can easily place myself on the edge of the open cupola, when the learned and wise men assemble to consult on the state of the sick man; perhaps they may come a little nearer to the truth."

Who acts: stork papa, learned men, men · What happens: know, say, place, learn, assemble, consult · To what, where: stork papa, edge, state · 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 (stork papa, learned men, men), 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	_	5 know	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 papa	det
10	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 papa	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stork	punct
12	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 place	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 place	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 place	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 place	advmod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	parataxis
23	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 place	nmod:unmarked
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 cupola	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cupola	det
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cupola	amod
30	cupola	cupola	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 assemble	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 assemble	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 men	det
34	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 men	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wise	cc
36	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 learned	conj
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 assemble	nsubj
38	assemble	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 place	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 consult	mark
40	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 assemble	xcomp
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 state	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 state	det
43	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 consult	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 man	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 man	det
46	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 man	amod
47	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 state	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	52 come	advmod
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 come	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 come	aux
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 little	det
54	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 nearer	advmod
55	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 come	xcomp
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 truth	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 truth	det
58	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 nearer	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the stork papa = papa				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the stork papa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	place in a quote	can	the stork papa = papa	the stork papa = papa	the edge of the open cupola	to morrow; easily property	tree rules
4	learn in a quote	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	assemble in a quote	present	the learned men				tree rules
6	consult in a quote	to-infinitive	the learned men not said here		the state of the sick man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come in a quote	may	men = man			near, perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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