Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 89
"I don't quite understand it," said the mamma stork, when her husband repeated it; "however, it is not my fault, but the fault of the thought; whatever it may be, I have something else to think of."
Who acts: mamma stork, husband, Love, fault · What happens: not understand, say, repeat, not be, be, think · To what, where: Love, fault, thought · 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, husband, Love, fault), 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 | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stork | det |
| 12 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stork | compound |
| 13 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 repeated | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 repeated | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repeated | nsubj |
| 18 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stork | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 repeated | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fault | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fault | punct |
| 22 | however | however | ADV | _ | 28 fault | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 however | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fault | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fault | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fault | advmod |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fault | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 have | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fault | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 fault | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fault | det |
| 32 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fault | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 thought | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 thought | det |
| 35 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fault | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 37 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 be | obj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 be | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 have | cop |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 have | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 have | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 have | obj |
| 45 | else | else | ADV | _ | 44 something | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 think | mark |
| 47 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 something | acl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 think | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | the mamma stork = stork | Love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mamma stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | repeat | past | thought's husband | Love | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | Love | my fault but the fault of the thought | however property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | my fault but the fault of the thought | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | my fault but the fault of the thought not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fault in a quote | the thought | nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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