Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 69

Of all the boys in the street who sang the mocking song about the storks, not one was so determined to go on with it as he who first began it.

Who acts: street, revenge · What happens: sing, be, go on, begin · To what, where: mocking song, song

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 (street, revenge), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 boys	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 boys	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 determined	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boys	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sang	nsubj
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 street	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 song	det
11	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 song	compound
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sang	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 storks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 storks	det
15	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 song	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 storks	appos
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 determined	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 determined	advmod
21	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	on	on	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 began	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 began	nsubj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 began	advmod
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 go	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the street	the mocking song	about the storks	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	is	past			of all boys in the street; determined property	tree rules
3	go on	to-infinitive			with song	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	revenge	song	first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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