Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 35

Time passed on, and the young storks grew so large that they could stand upright in the nest and look about them.

Who acts: young storks, storks · What happens: pass on, grow, stand, look · To what, where: nest

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 (young storks, storks), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storks	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 storks	amod
8	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 large	advmod
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 stand	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stand	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	aux
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 large	advcl
16	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stand	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 nest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nest	det
19	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stand	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 look	cc
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stand	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 look	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle			time		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the young storks			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	could	storks = stork	the nest		upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
4	look	infinitive	storks = stork not said here			about storks = stork	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=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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