Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 2

A little way off, on the edge of the roof, stood the father stork, quite upright and stiff; not liking to be quite idle, he drew up one leg, and stood on the other, so still that it seemed almost as if he were carved in wood. "

Who acts: he, it · What happens: stand, not like, be, draw up, seem, carve · To what, where: father stork, edge, one leg, other, he, wood

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 (he, it), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 off	obl:unmarked
4	off	off	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 off	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 roof	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 edge	punct
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stork	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stork	compound
16	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 upright	punct
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 upright	advmod
19	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stiff	cc
21	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 upright	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 liking	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 liking	advmod
24	liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stood	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	28 idle	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 idle	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 idle	advmod
28	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 liking	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drew	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drew	nsubj
31	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 drew	compound:prt
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 leg	nummod
34	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drew	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stood	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stood	cc
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stood	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seemed	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 still	advmod
43	still	still	ADV	_	46 seemed	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 seemed	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 seemed	nsubj
46	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	parataxis
47	almost	almost	ADV	_	46 seemed	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 carved	mark
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 carved	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 carved	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 carved	aux:pass
52	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 seemed	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 wood	case
54	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 carved	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the father stork	the edge of the roof		off property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stork=Theme on edge=Destination
2	not like	gerund						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					idle property	tree rules
4	draw up	past	he	one leg				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
5	stand	past			the other			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on other=Location
6	seem	past	it			still	almost property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	carve a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		he	wood			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination

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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