Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 6

It had been sawn off at the top, and a stork had built his nest upon it; and he stood in this nest clapping with his beak.

Who acts: stork · What happens: sawn off, build, stand, clap · To what, where: tree, top, stork, nest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sawn	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sawn	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sawn	aux:pass
4	sawn	sawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 sawn	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sawn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 built	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 built	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stork	det
12	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 built	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 built	aux
14	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sawn	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nest	nmod:poss
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 built	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 built	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sawn	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 nest	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 nest	det
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
26	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 stood	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 beak	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beak	nmod:poss
29	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clapping	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sawn off	past · perfect · passive		tree	the top		tree rules
2	build	past · perfect · passive		a stork		upon tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product
3	stand	past	stork		this nest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
4	clap	gerund	stork not said here			with stork's beak	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with beak=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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