Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 4
"I should like to get away the swan's feathers from those two treacherous princesses," said the papa stork; "then, at least, they would not be able to fly over again to the wild moor, and do more wickedness.
Who acts: papa stork, storks · What happens: like, get away, say, not be, fly, do · To what, where: feathers, least, more wickedness · 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 (papa stork, storks), 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 | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swan | det |
| 9 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 swan | case |
| 11 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 princesses | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 princesses | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 princesses | nummod |
| 15 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 princesses | amod |
| 16 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stork | det |
| 21 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stork | compound |
| 22 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 like | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 able | punct |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 least | case |
| 28 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 able | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 least | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 able | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 able | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 able | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 able | cop |
| 34 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 fly | mark |
| 36 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 able | xcomp |
| 37 | over | over | ADV | _ | 38 again | advmod |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 fly | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 moor | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 moor | det |
| 41 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 moor | amod |
| 42 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fly | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 do | cc |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fly | conj |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 wickedness | amod |
| 47 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 do | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | the papa stork = stork | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get away not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the papa stork = stork not said here | the swan's feathers | from that two treacherous princesses; away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the papa stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | would | storks = stork | least | able property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | storks = stork not said here | again | to the wild moor result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moor=Result | |||
| 6 | do in a quote | infinitive | storks = stork not said here | more wickedness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=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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