Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 40

The sparrows took possession of the stork's nest, and conversed about the absent owners in their own fashion; and they, the stork pair and all their young ones, where were they staying now?

Who acts: sparrows · What happens: take, converse, pair, stay, possess · To what, where: possession, nest

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 (sparrows), 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 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 nest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nest	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 stork	case
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possession	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 conversed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 conversed	cc
12	conversed	converse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 owners	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 owners	det
15	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 owners	amod
16	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 conversed	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 fashion	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fashion	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fashion	amod
20	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owners	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pair	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pair	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pair	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pair	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pair	det
26	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pair	compound
27	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ones	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 ones	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ones	nmod:poss
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ones	amod
32	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pair	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 staying	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 staying	advmod
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 staying	aux
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 staying	nsubj
37	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 ones	acl
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 staying	advmod
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sparrows	possession of the stork's nest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	converse speech: other	participle	the sparrows not said here			about the absent owners in sparrows's own fashion	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about owner=Topic
3	pair		sparrows = sparrow				tree rules
4	stay	past · progressive	sparrows = sparrow		now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	possess			the stork's nest			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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