Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 12
"And what did you receive?" said the stork-mamma. "
Who acts: you, stork mamma · What happens: receive, say · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 receive | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 receive | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 receive | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 receive | nsubj |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mamma | det |
| 11 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mamma | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 stork | punct |
| 13 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the stork mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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