Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 83

These presents were the best part of the affair, for they could eat the frogs and snakes, which they very quickly did.

Who acts: presents, storks · What happens: be, eat, do · To what, where: best part, frogs

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 (presents, 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 presents	det
2	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 part	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 affair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 affair	det
9	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 part	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 frogs	det
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 snakes	cc
18	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 frogs	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 did	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 quickly	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 did	advmod
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 frogs	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this presents	the best part	of the affair	tree rules
2	eat	could	storks = stork	the frogs and snakes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient
3	do	past	storks = stork	the frogs and snakes	quickly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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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