Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 50

Then they began to fancy they could soar, so they tried to do so, resting on their wings, but they soon found themselves falling, and had to flap their wings as quickly as possible.

Who acts: storks · What happens: begin, fancy, soar, try, do, rest · To what, where: wings, 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fancy	mark
5	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soar	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 soar	aux
8	soar	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fancy	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 tried	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tried	nsubj
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 resting	punct
17	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 do	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 wings	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wings	nmod:poss
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 resting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 found	advmod
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	obj
27	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 found	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 flap	mark
32	flap	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wings	nmod:poss
34	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 flap	obj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 quickly	advmod
36	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	32 flap	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 possible	mark
38	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 quickly	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	storks = stork			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fancy	to-infinitive	storks = stork not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	soar	could	storks = stork					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	try	past	storks = stork					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	storks = stork not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	gerund	storks = stork not said here		storks's wings			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wing=Location
7	find	past	storks = stork	storks = stork			soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
8	fall	gerund	storks = stork not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	have	past	storks = stork not said here					tree rules
10	flap	to-infinitive	storks = stork not said here	storks's wings			quickly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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