Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 82
The young storks performed their part so well that they received a mark of honor, with frogs and snakes as a present.
Who acts: young storks, storks · What happens: perform, receive, mark · To what, where: part, mark, honor
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 | 4 performed | nsubj |
| 4 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 part | nmod:poss |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 performed | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 performed | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 received | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 performed | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mark | det |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 honor | case |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frogs | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 frogs | case |
| 18 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 received | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 snakes | cc |
| 20 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 frogs | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 present | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 present | det |
| 23 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past | the young storks | storks's part | well property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past | storks = stork | a mark of honor | with frogs and snakes; as a present | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | |||
| 3 | mark | honor | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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