Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 41

"And our good nest would be destroyed, too," said the mamma stork; "but you think less of that than of your plumage stuff and your moor-princess.

Who acts: mamma stork, you · What happens: destroy, say, think · To what, where: good nest, less · 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 (mamma stork, you), 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	_	8 destroyed	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 destroyed	cc
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nest	amod
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 destroyed	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 destroyed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 destroyed	aux:pass
8	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 destroyed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 destroyed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 destroyed	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stork	det
15	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stork	compound
16	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 but	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 think	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 less	obl
25	than	than	ADP	_	29 stuff	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 stuff	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stuff	nmod:poss
28	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuff	compound
29	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 less	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 princess	cc
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 princess	nmod:poss
32	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 princess	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 moor	punct
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuff	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	destroy in a quote	would · passive		our good nest	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the mamma stork		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	you	less	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot less=Theme

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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