Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 3

One of the wisest of them said, as the stork-mamma also said, "That in some way she would, after all, manage to succeed;" and so at last they comforted themselves with this hope, and would wait patiently; in fact, they could do nothing better.

Who acts: stork mamma, papa · What happens: say, manage, succeed, comfort, wait, do · To what, where: papa, nothing, fact · 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 (stork mamma, papa), 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	7 said	ccomp
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wisest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wisest	det
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wisest	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mamma	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mamma	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 stork	punct
13	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 That	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 That	punct
18	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 said	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 That	nmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 manage	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
28	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 succeed	mark
30	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 manage	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 comforted	cc
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 last	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 last	case
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 comforted	xcomp
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 comforted	nsubj
38	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 comforted	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 hope	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 hope	det
42	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 comforted	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 wait	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wait	cc
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 wait	aux
46	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
47	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	46 wait	advmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 do	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 fact	case
50	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 do	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fact	punct
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 do	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 do	aux
54	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 wait	conj
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	54 do	obj
56	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 do	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					of the wisest of papa	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the stork mamma					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	manage in a quote	infinitive				after all		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	succeed in a quote	to-infinitive						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	comfort	past	papa	papa			with this hope; last property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
6	wait	would					patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	could	papa	nothing	fact			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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