Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 34

One evening the other large birds of the forest said to the ostrich, "Brother, shall we fly to the river to-morrow morning to drink, God willing?" and the ostrich answered, "I will."

Who acts: other large birds, we, ostrich · What happens: say, fly, drink, answer · To what, where: ostrich, willing · 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 (other large birds, we, ostrich), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birds	nmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ostrich	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ostrich	det
13	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Brother	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Brother	punct
16	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ostrich	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	aux
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fly	nsubj
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fly	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 morning	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 to	punct
26	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 morning	compound
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fly	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 drink	mark
29	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fly	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 willing	punct
31	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 willing	nsubj
32	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drink	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 willing	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 willing	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 answered	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ostrich	det
37	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 answered	nsubj
38	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 willing	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 will	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 will	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 will	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 answered	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the other large birds of the forest		the ostrich and Brother	evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ostrich=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	shall	we			morning	to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
3	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	willing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willing=Patient
4	answer speech: assert	past	the ostrich					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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