Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 79

As soon as the autumn arrived, all the storks began to assemble together before taking their departure for warm countries during the winter.

Who acts: autumn, storks · What happens: arrive, begin, assemble, take, depart · To what, where: departure

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 (autumn, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 began	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 arrived	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 autumn	det
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 storks	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storks	det
10	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 assemble	mark
13	assemble	assemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 assemble	advmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 taking	mark
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 assemble	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 departure	nmod:poss
18	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 countries	case
20	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 countries	amod
21	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taking	obl
22	during	during	ADP	_	24 winter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 winter	det
24	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the autumn				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	all storks			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	assemble	to-infinitive	all storks not said here			together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	gerund	all storks not said here	storks's departure	winter	for warm countries	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent departure=Theme for country=Beneficiary
5	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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