Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 43

"It is rather heavy to carry," thought stork-papa, when he had it on his neck; "but gold and honor are not to be flung into the street.

Who acts: It, stork papa · What happens: be, carry, think, have, not fling · To what, where: circlet, neck, gold, street · 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 (It, stork papa), 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 heavy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	conj
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 papa	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 stork	punct
13	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 had	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 flung	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 flung	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 flung	cc
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flung	nsubj:pass
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 honor	cc
27	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gold	conj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 flung	aux:pass
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 flung	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 flung	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 flung	aux:pass
32	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 had	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 street	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 street	det
35	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It			heavy property	tree rules
2	carry in a quote	to-infinitive					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	stork papa	circlet	papa's neck		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not fling in a quote	present · passive		gold and honor	the street		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into street=Destination

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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