Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 11
"No one will thank you for it," said stork-mamma; "but you are master; and, excepting at breeding time, I have nothing to say."
Who acts: one, stork mamma, you, mamma stork · What happens: thank, say, be, except, have · To what, where: you, master, nothing · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, stork mamma, you, mamma 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thank | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thank | aux |
| 5 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thank | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thank | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thank | conj |
| 12 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mamma | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 stork | punct |
| 14 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 master | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 master | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 master | cop |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thank | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 excepting | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 excepting | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 excepting | punct |
| 24 | excepting | except | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thank | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | compound |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 excepting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 excepting | parataxis |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 have | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nothing | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | future | no one | you | for swan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stork mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | master | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | except in a quote | gerund | no one not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the mamma stork = stork | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the mamma stork = stork not said here | nothing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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