Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 64

"Yes, but it is very little," said mamma stork; "they could not possibly have done less."

Who acts: feast, mamma stork, balustrades · What happens: be, say, not do · 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 (feast, mamma stork, balustrades), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 little	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 little	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 little	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Yes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stork	compound
13	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 done	advmod
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	21 done	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
22	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 done	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	feast	little property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	mamma stork		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not do in a quote	could · perfect	balustrades = balustrade	less, possibly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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