Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 5

In the street below were a number of children at play, and when they caught sight of the storks, one of the boldest amongst the boys began to sing a song about them, and very soon he was joined by the rest.

Who acts: number, children, rest · What happens: be, catch, begin, sing, join, sight · To what, where: street, sight, song, number, storks

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 (number, children, rest), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 street	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
4	below	below	ADV	_	3 street	advmod
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 number	det
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 number	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 play	case
11	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 caught	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj
16	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 began	advcl
17	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 storks	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storks	det
20	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sight	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 caught	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 boldest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boldest	det
25	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 one	nmod
26	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	28 boys	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boys	det
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 boldest	obl
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 were	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sing	mark
31	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 song	det
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sing	obj
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 song	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 joined	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 joined	cc
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 soon	advmod
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 joined	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 joined	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 joined	aux:pass
42	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 began	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 rest	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rest	det
45	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 joined	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a number of children at play		the street		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location
2	catch	past	children = child	sight of the storks		one of the boldest obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive		a song		about storks = stork	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	join	past · passive	the rest	number		soon property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	sight			the storks			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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