Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 40

And all the four young ones were obliged to come out on the top of the roof.

What happens: oblige, come out · To what, where: four young ones, top

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 obliged	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ones	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ones	nummod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 obliged	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 obliged	aux:pass
8	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 obliged	xcomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		all four young ones					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	come out	to-infinitive				the top of the roof		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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