Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 38

He would lay his head quite round over his tail, and clatter with his beak, as if it had been a rattle; and then he would tell them stories all about the marshes and fens.

Who acts: father, clatter · What happens: lay, be, tell · To what, where: head, tail, rattle, stories, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, clatter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 round	advmod
7	round	round	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clatter	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 clatter	cc
13	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 beak	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beak	nmod:poss
16	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clatter	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rattle	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 rattle	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 rattle	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rattle	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rattle	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 rattle	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rattle	det
24	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 tell	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	obj
33	all	all	ADV	_	36 marshes	advmod
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 marshes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 marshes	det
36	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fens	cc
38	fens	fen	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 marshes	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	father	father's head		father's tail		clatter with father's beak obl; round property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme over tail=Destination
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	clatter	a rattle					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	would	father	stories	heads = head		then	about the marshes and fens	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic

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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