Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 1

The storks relate to their little ones a great many stories, and they are all about moors and reed banks, and suited to their age and capacity.

Who acts: storks · What happens: relate, be, suit · To what, where: little ones

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 relate	nsubj
3	relate	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 ones	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ones	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 relate	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stories	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stories	amod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stories	amod
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ones	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moors	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moors	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 moors	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 moors	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 moors	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 moors	case
18	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 relate	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 banks	cc
20	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 banks	compound
21	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moors	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 suited	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 suited	cc
24	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 relate	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 age	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 age	nmod:poss
27	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suited	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 capacity	cc
29	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 age	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 relate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	relate	present	the storks	storks's little ones a great many stories			vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to one=Co-Theme
2	is	present	storks = stork			about moors and reed banks; all property	tree rules
3	suit	participle			to storks's age and capacity		tree rules

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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