Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 45
"You lay gold, and I lay eggs," said stork-mamma; "with you it is only once in a way, I lay eggs every year But no one appreciates what we do; I call it very mortifying."
Who acts: You, stork mamma, fortune, one, we · What happens: lay, say, be, appreciate, do, call · To what, where: gold, eggs, way, fortune · 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, stork mamma, fortune, one), 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 | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mamma | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 stork | punct |
| 15 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 lay | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 once | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 once | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 once | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 once | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 once | advmod |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 lay | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 way | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 lay | nsubj |
| 29 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 30 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lay | obj |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 year | det |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 appreciates | cc |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appreciates | nsubj |
| 36 | appreciates | appreciate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 lay | conj |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 do | obj |
| 38 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 do | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 appreciates | ccomp |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 call | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 call | nsubj |
| 42 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 call | obj |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 mortifying | advmod |
| 45 | mortifying | mortify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 call | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 call | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | present | You | gold | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay in a quote | present | stork mamma = mamma | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | stork mamma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | fortune | with you; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lay in a quote | present | stork mamma = mamma | eggs | a way | year | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in way=Destination | ||
| 6 | appreciate in a quote | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | call in a quote | present | stork mamma = mamma | fortune | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | mortify in a quote | gerund | stork mamma = mamma not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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