Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 1

On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, and the mother stork sat in it with her four young ones, who stretched out their necks and pointed their black beaks, which had not yet turned red like those of the parent birds.

Who acts: mother stork, four young ones, black beaks · What happens: build, sit, stretch out, point, have, not turn · To what, where: storks, last house, nest, necks, black beaks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother stork, four young ones, black beaks), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storks	det
10	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 built	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 built	aux
12	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nest	det
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stork	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stork	compound
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 built	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 ones	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ones	nmod:poss
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 ones	nummod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stretched	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stretched	nsubj
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ones	acl:relcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 stretched	compound:prt
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 necks	nmod:poss
33	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stretched	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pointed	cc
35	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stretched	conj
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 beaks	nmod:poss
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 beaks	amod
38	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pointed	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 beaks	acl:relcl
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 turned	advmod
43	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 turned	advmod
44	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 had	xcomp
45	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 turned	xcomp
46	like	like	ADP	_	47 those	case
47	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 turned	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 birds	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 birds	det
50	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 birds	compound
51	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 those	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		the storks	the last house in a little village			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product
2	sit	past	the mother stork		nest		with her four young ones	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	stretch out	past	her four young ones	storks's necks				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
4	point	past	her four young ones not said here	storks's black beaks				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
5	have	past	storks's black beaks					tree rules
6	not turn	participle	storks's black beaks not said here			yet	like those; red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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