Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 93
Then stork-papa winked his eyes, and said, "Why that's an old story which happened in the time of my grandfather.
Who acts: stork papa, that, old story · What happens: wink, say, be, happen · To what, where: eyes, old story · 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, that, old story), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 winked | advmod |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 papa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
| 4 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winked | nsubj |
| 5 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 winked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 winked | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 story | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 story | punct |
| 13 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 story | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 story | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 story | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 story | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 story | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 grandfather | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 26 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 winked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink | past | stork papa | papa's eyes | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stork papa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | a old story | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | past | a old story | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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