Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 103

"Don't talk about snakes while we are flying up here," said stork-mamma. "

Who acts: you, we, stork mamma · What happens: not talk, fly up, say · 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 (you, we, stork mamma), 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 talk	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 snakes	case
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 flying	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flying	aux
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 flying	compound:prt
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 flying	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	parataxis
16	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mamma	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 stork	punct
18	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		about snakes	tree rules
2	fly up in a quote	present · progressive	we	here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	stork mamma			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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