Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 6
"But where will you put them?" asked the mamma stork.
Who acts: you, mamma stork · What happens: put, ask · To what, where: suits · 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 (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 | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 put | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stork | det |
| 12 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stork | compound |
| 13 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | future | you | suits = suit | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the mamma stork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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