Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 60
"Yes, we must go to the Viking's castle," said the stork; "mother and the young ones are waiting for me there.
Who acts: we, stork, mother · What happens: go, say, wait · To what, where: castle · 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, mother), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Viking | det |
| 9 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Viking | case |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mother | punct |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waiting | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ones | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ones | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mother | conj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 waiting | aux |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 waiting | obl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 waiting | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | we | the Viking's castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | mother and the young ones | there | for the stork = stork | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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