Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 52
When the day dawns we shall start with a great company of other storks.
Who acts: day, we · What happens: dawn, start
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 (day, we), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 dawns | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawns | nsubj |
| 4 | dawns | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | advcl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 start | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | aux |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 company | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 company | amod |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 storks | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 storks | amod |
| 14 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 company | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | present | the day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start | shall | we | with a great company of other storks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with company=Subeventuality |
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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