Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 8

I and the young ones will carry them by turns during our flight across; and as we return, should they prove too heavy for us, we shall be sure to find plenty of places on the way in which we can conceal them till our next journey.

Who acts: I, we, storks, our · What happens: carry, return, prove, be, find, conceal · To what, where: storks, plenty, way

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 (I, we, storks, our), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 carry	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carry	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carry	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 turns	case
10	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 flight	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 flight	nmod:poss
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl
14	across	across	ADV	_	7 carry	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 prove	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prove	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
19	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	aux
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prove	nsubj
23	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 carry	conj
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 heavy	advmod
25	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prove	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 heavy	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sure	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 sure	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sure	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	cop
32	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prove	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	xcomp
35	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 places	case
37	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 plenty	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 way	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 conceal	obl
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 conceal	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 conceal	aux
45	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 way	acl:relcl
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 conceal	obj
47	till	till	ADP	_	50 journey	case
48	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 journey	nmod:poss
49	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 journey	amod
50	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 conceal	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	future	I	storks = stork		during our flight	by turns; across property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	return	present	we					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prove	should	storks = stork				heavy property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	shall	we				sure property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	we not said here	plenty of places	the way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic
6	conceal	can	we	storks = stork	the way	till our next journey		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in which=Location
7	journey		our					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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