Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 81

And the learned and wise men assembled together, and talked a great deal on every point; but the stork could make no sense out of anything they said; neither were there any good results from their consultations, either for the sick man, or for his daughter in the marshy heath.

Who acts: learned men, stork, men, neither · What happens: learn, assemble, talk, make, say, be · To what, where: good results, great deal, point, sense, anything, there · 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 (learned men, stork, men, neither), 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 assembled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 men	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wise	cc
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 learned	conj
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 assembled	nsubj
7	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 assembled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talked	cc
11	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 assembled	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talked	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 point	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stork	det
21	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 talked	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 sense	det
25	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 anything	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 make	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 anything	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 assembled	punct
32	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	34 there	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 there	cop
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 assembled	expl
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 results	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 results	amod
37	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 assembled	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 consultations	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 consultations	nmod:poss
40	consultations	consultation	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 results	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 man	punct
42	either	either	CCONJ	_	46 man	cc:preconj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 man	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 man	det
45	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 man	amod
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assembled	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 daughter	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 daughter	cc
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 daughter	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 daughter	nmod:poss
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 man	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 heath	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 heath	det
54	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 heath	amod
55	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 daughter	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	assemble	participle	the learned men	any good results from men's consultations	there	for the sick man or Egypt's daughter in the marshy heath; together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	talk	past	the learned men not said here	a great deal	every point		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
4	make	could	the stork	no sense	anything		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Product
5	say speech: assert	past	men = man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	neither	there			tree rules
7	consult		men = man				nom consultation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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