Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 63
"I call that very sensible and pretty," said stork-papa.
Who acts: stork papa · What happens: call, say · 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 | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sensible | nsubj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sensible | advmod |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 call | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pretty | cc |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sensible | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 papa | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 stork | punct |
| 14 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | present | stork papa = papa | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stork papa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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