Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 33

Once, say they, the ostriches were a beautiful and glorious race of birds, with large, strong wings.

Who acts: you, ostriches · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ostriches, beautiful race · 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, ostriches), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 race	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ostriches	det
7	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 race	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 race	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 race	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 race	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glorious	cc
12	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beautiful	conj
13	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 birds	case
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 race	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wings	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 wings	case
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wings	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wings	amod
21	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 birds	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	ostriches = ostrich				once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	is a	past	the ostriches	a beautiful race				of birds	tree rules

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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