Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 83
The stork did, and we know at least as much as he, the stork.
Who acts: stork, we · What happens: do, know
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, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 much | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 stork | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stork | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stork | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the stork | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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