Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 68

Then he flew back quickly to the stork-mamma and told her what he had seen and done; and the little storks listened to it all, for they were then quite old enough to do so. "

Who acts: king, little storks, storks · What happens: fly back, tell, see, do, listen, be · To what, where: child, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, little 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 mamma	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mamma	det
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mamma	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 stork	punct
10	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 seen	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 done	cc
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 seen	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 listened	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 listened	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 storks	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 storks	amod
24	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 listened	nsubj
25	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 listened	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 it	det
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 old	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	35 old	case
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 old	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 old	cop
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 old	advmod
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 old	advmod
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 listened	conj
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 old	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 old	xcomp
39	so	so	ADV	_	38 do	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	past	king			then	to the stork mamma result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mamma=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	do	participle	king not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen	past	the little storks	hole				tree rules
6	is	past	storks = stork			then	enough, old property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	storks = stork not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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