Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 100

"Now that is a new ending to the story," said stork-papa; "I really never expected it would end in this way, but it seems a very good ending."

Who acts: that, new ending, ending, it · What happens: be, say, not expect, end, seem · To what, where: new ending, stork papa, way, good ending · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, new ending, ending, it), 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	_	7 ending	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ending	advmod
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 ending	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ending	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ending	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ending	amod
7	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ending	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 papa	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 stork	punct
16	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 expected	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 expected	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 expected	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	22 expected	advmod
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 expected	advmod
22	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 end	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 end	aux
25	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 expected	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seems	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 seems	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seems	nsubj
32	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ending	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ending	amod
36	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seems	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 seems	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	a new ending		now	to the story	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a new ending	stork papa				tree rules
3	not expect in a quote	past	a new ending = ending					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	end in a quote	would	ending		this way			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	seem in a quote	present	it	a good ending				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ending=Attribute

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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