Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 4
"Well," said the stork-mamma, when she had heard it, "you will be made something of at last; I suppose they can do nothing less."
Who acts: stork mamma, Joy, men · What happens: say, hear, make, suppose, do · To what, where: mamma, you, nothing · 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 (stork mamma, Joy, men), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mamma | det |
| 7 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mamma | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 stork | punct |
| 9 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 mamma | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 heard | conj |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 something | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 suppose | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 suppose | nsubj |
| 28 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 do | aux |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 suppose | ccomp |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 do | obj |
| 33 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 nothing | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the stork mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Joy | mamma | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | future · passive | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary something=Product | |||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | present | the stork mamma = mamma | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | can | men = man | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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