Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 101

"And what will the young ones say to it, I wonder?" said stork-mamma.

Who acts: young ones, stork mamma · What happens: say, wonder · To what, where: way · 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 (young ones, stork mamma), 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	_	3 what	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	nsubj:outer
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wonder	nsubj
13	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mamma	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 stork	punct
19	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	future	the young ones	way	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
2	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	stork mamma = mamma		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: ask	past	stork mamma		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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