Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 5
"What could I be made?" said stork-papa; "what have I done?--just nothing."
Who acts: stork papa · What happens: make, say, do · To what, where: stork papa · 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 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 | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | obl |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 papa | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 stork | punct |
| 12 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | obj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 nothing | advmod |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | could · passive | stork papa = papa | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | stork papa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | stork papa = papa | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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