Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 78

"You shall see," said the young birds, and then they took such pains and practised so well every day, that at last it was quite a pleasure to see them fly so lightly and prettily.

Who acts: You, young birds, birds · What happens: see, say, take, practise, be, fly · To what, where: such pains, pleasure, last, pains · 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 (You, young birds, birds), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 took	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pains	amod
17	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 practised	cc
19	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 took	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 day	advmod
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 practised	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 took	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pleasure	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pleasure	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pleasure	cop
30	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	32 pleasure	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pleasure	det
32	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 pleasure	csubj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	parataxis
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 lightly	advmod
38	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	36 fly	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 prettily	cc
40	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	38 lightly	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	shall	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the young birds					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	birds = bird	such pains		then	that obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
4	practise	participle	birds = bird not said here			day		tree rules
5	is a	past		quite pleasure	last			tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive		pains = pain				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	fly	infinitive					lightly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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