Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 74

The young storks were very angry, and grew worse as they grew older; so at last their mother was obliged to promise that they should be revenged, but not until the day of their departure.

Who acts: young storks, storks · What happens: be, grow, oblige, promise, revenge, depart · To what, where: storks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young storks, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storks	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storks	amod
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 angry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grew	xcomp
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 grew	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	advcl
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 obliged	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 obliged	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 mother	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 obliged	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 obliged	aux:pass
22	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grew	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 promise	mark
24	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 obliged	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 revenged	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 revenged	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 revenged	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 revenged	aux:pass
29	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 promise	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 day	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 day	advmod
33	until	until	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 departure	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 departure	nmod:poss
38	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 day	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young storks		angry property	tree rules
2	grow	past			bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	storks = stork		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	oblige	past · passive			at storks's last mother	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
5	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	revenge	should · passive		storks = stork		tree rules
7	depart		storks = stork			nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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