Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 44
The stork brings good fortune--they'll be obliged to acknowledge that at last."
Who acts: stork · What happens: bring, oblige, acknowledge · To what, where: good fortune, gold, that, last
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fortune | amod |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 obliged | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 obliged | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | aux:pass |
| 10 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brings | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 acknowledge | mark |
| 12 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 acknowledge | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 acknowledge | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the stork | good fortune | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | future · passive | gold | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | acknowledge | to-infinitive | that | last | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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