Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 2

More than a hundred pair of storks had rested there during the night, to recover themselves after their excursion; and now they soared aloft, and prepared for the journey southward.

Who acts: storks · What happens: rest, recover, soar, prepare · To what, where: hundred pair, storks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pair	nummod
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rested	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 storks	case
7	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rested	aux
9	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 rested	advmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rested	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 recover	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 recover	mark
16	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rested	conj
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 recover	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 excursion	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 excursion	nmod:poss
20	excursion	excursion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 recover	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 soared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 soared	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 soared	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 soared	nsubj
25	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rested	conj
26	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 soared	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prepared	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prepared	cc
29	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 soared	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 journey	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 journey	det
32	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prepared	obl
33	southward	southward	ADV	_	29 prepared	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past · perfect · passive		hundred pair of storks	there	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	recover	to-infinitive		storks = stork		after storks's excursion		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	soar	past	storks = stork			now	aloft property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	prepare	participle	storks = stork not said here				for the journey; southward property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary

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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