Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 73

So they determined to have their revenge on this boy, because he began the song first and would keep on with it.

Who acts: storks, revenge · What happens: determine, have, begin, keep on, revenge · To what, where: revenge, 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 (storks, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 determined	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 determined	nsubj
3	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 determined	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 revenge	nmod:poss
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 began	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 began	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 keep	aux
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 determined	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 keep	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 keep	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	past	storks = stork			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	to-infinitive	storks = stork not said here	storks's revenge	on this boy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient
3	begin	past	revenge	the song	first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
4	keep on	would	storks = stork not said here		with song	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	revenge		storks = stork			nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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