Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 71

To the young storks he appeared at least a hundred, for he was so much bigger than their father and mother.

Who acts: revenge · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: hundred

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 (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	To	to	ADP	_	4 storks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storks	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storks	amod
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appeared	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 least	case
8	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 hundred	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 appeared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bigger	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 bigger	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bigger	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bigger	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 bigger	advmod
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 appeared	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bigger	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mother	cc
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	revenge	a hundred at least				to the young storks	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	revenge					than storks's father and mother; big property	tree rules

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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