Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 47
"What good will that do you?" retorted stork-mamma; "it will neither bring you a fair wind, nor a good meal."
Who acts: that, consciousness · What happens: do, retort, bring · To what, where: you, fair wind · 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 (that, consciousness), 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 good | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 good | nsubj |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 10 | retorted | retort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mamma | amod |
| 11 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mamma | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 stork | punct |
| 13 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 18 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 good | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wind | amod |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meal | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 meal | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 meal | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meal | amod |
| 28 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | that | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | future | consciousness | a fair wind | you | a good meal obl; neither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination wind=Theme |
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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