Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 102

They could fly a little; by practice they learned to improve, and at last they agreed upon a sign by which to recognise each other if they should meet in the world later on.

Who acts: children · What happens: fly, learn, improve, agree, recognise, meet · To what, where: little, last, each, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7439): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	obl:unmarked
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 learned	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 practice	case
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learned	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learned	nsubj
10	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 improve	mark
12	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learned	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 agreed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 agreed	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 agreed	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 agreed	nsubj
18	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learned	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 sign	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 agreed	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 recognise	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 recognise	mark
25	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sign	acl:relcl
26	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	25 recognise	obj
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 each	fixed
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 meet	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 meet	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 meet	aux
31	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 recognise	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 meet	obl
35	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 on	advmod
36	on	on	ADV	_	31 meet	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	could	children = child	a little			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	past	children = child			by practice	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	improve	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	agree speech: agree	past	children = child		last	upon a sign	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	recognise	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	each		by a sign	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
6	meet a condition, not said to happen	should	children = child		the world		vn meet-36.3-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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