Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 66
The old stork pair bowed their heads, and curved their necks, and even the youngest among the young ones felt honored by this reception.
Who acts: old stork pair, youngest · What happens: bow, curve, feel, honor · To what, where: heads, necks
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 (old stork pair, youngest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pair | amod |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pair | compound |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 curved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 curved | cc |
| 10 | curved | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 necks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 curved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 youngest | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 youngest | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 youngest | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youngest | det |
| 17 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 ones | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ones | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 youngest | nmod |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | parataxis |
| 23 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 reception | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 reception | det |
| 26 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honored | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the old stork pair | balustrades's heads | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | curve | past | the old stork pair not said here | balustrades's necks | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the youngest among the young ones | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | honor | participle | the youngest among the young ones not said here | by this reception | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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