Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 45

"And now we can converse with pleasure," said the stork-papa; "we can understand one another, although the beaks of birds are so different in shape.

Who acts: we, stork papa, beaks · What happens: converse, say, understand, be · To what, where: one, shape · 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 (we, stork papa, beaks), 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 converse	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 converse	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 converse	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 converse	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 converse	aux
6	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 pleasure	case
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 converse	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 converse	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 converse	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 papa	det
13	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 papa	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 stork	punct
15	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 understand	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 understand	aux
20	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 understand	obj
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 different	punct
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 different	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beaks	det
26	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 different	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 birds	case
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 beaks	nmod
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 different	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 different	advmod
31	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 understand	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 shape	case
33	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 different	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	converse speech: other in a quote	can	we			now	with pleasure	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pleasure=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the stork papa					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	understand in a quote	can	we	one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	the beaks of birds		shape		different property	tree rules

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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