Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 94
One thing, however, the papa stork could understand.
Who acts: papa stork · What happens: understand · To what, where: One thing
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 (papa 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thing | nummod |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thing | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 understand | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stork | det |
| 7 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stork | compound |
| 8 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 understand | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 understand | aux |
| 10 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | could | the papa stork | One thing not said here | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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