Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 87

I know the pond in which all the little children lie, waiting till the storks come to take them to their parents.

Who acts: I, little children, storks · What happens: know, lie, wait, come, take · To what, where: pond, storks, parents

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 (I, little children, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pond	det
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lie	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 children	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lie	nsubj
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pond	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lie	advcl
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 storks	det
16	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 parents	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 parents	nmod:poss
23	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	I	the pond			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pond=Stimulus
2	lie	present	all little children			the pond	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	wait	gerund	all little children not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	the storks				tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	the storks not said here	storks = stork	storks's parents		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to parent=Destination

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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