Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 36
"One can scarcely believe that she was ever small enough to lie in the cup of the water-lily," said the papa stork; "and now she is grown up, and the image of her Egyptian mother, especially about the eyes.
Who acts: One, woman, papa stork · What happens: believe, be, lie, say, grow up, image · To what, where: cup, woman, Egyptian mother · 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, woman, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 small | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 small | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 small | cop |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 small | advmod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 said | advcl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lie | mark |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 small | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cup | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lily | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lily | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lily | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 water | punct |
| 21 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cup | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 small | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 small | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stork | det |
| 26 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stork | compound |
| 27 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grown | cc |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 grown | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 grown | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 grown | aux:pass |
| 34 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 grown | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 image | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 image | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 image | det |
| 39 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mother | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mother | nmod:poss |
| 42 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 mother | amod |
| 43 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 image | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 eyes | punct |
| 45 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 48 eyes | advmod |
| 46 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 eyes | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 eyes | det |
| 48 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 image | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | can | One | scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | woman | ever | enough, small property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the cup of the water lily | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cup=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the papa stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow up in a quote | present · passive | woman | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | image in a quote | woman's Egyptian mother | nom image «cognition 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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