Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 97
"We will not wait for the swans," said the mamma stork; "if they want to go with us, let them come now; we can't sit here till the plovers start.
Who acts: We, mamma stork, wings, plovers · What happens: not wait, say, want, go, let, come · To what, where: wings · 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, mamma stork, wings, plovers), 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 | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 swans | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swans | det |
| 8 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stork | det |
| 13 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stork | compound |
| 14 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 want | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 sit | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 sit | nsubj |
| 31 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 sit | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 sit | advmod |
| 33 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 sit | advmod |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 start | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 plovers | det |
| 37 | plovers | plover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 start | nsubj |
| 38 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sit | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait in a quote | future | We | for the swans | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mamma stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | wings = wing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | wings = wing not said here | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | wings = wing not said here | wings = wing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | wings = wing not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not sit in a quote | can | we | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | start in a quote | present | the plovers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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