Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 101
"Well, every one flies in his own fashion," said the papa stork. "
Who acts: one, papa stork · What happens: fly, say · To what, where: own fashion · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | _ | 6 flies | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 flies | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fashion | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fashion | amod |
| 10 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flies | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flies | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flies | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 15 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stork | compound |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flies | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | present | every one | air's own fashion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the papa stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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