Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 58

The young male storks soon began to quarrel; they struck at each other with their wings, and pecked with their beaks till the blood came.

Who acts: young male storks, storks, blood · What happens: begin, quarrel, strike, peck, come

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 (young male storks, storks, blood), 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	4 storks	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storks	amod
3	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storks	amod
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 began	advmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 quarrel	mark
8	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 struck	nsubj
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 struck	obl
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 wings	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wings	nmod:poss
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 struck	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pecked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pecked	cc
20	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 began	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 beaks	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beaks	nmod:poss
23	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pecked	obl
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 blood	det
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pecked	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the young male storks	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	quarrel	to-infinitive	the young male storks not said here		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike	past	storks = stork	with storks's wings; at each	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at each=Patient with wing=Instrument
4	peck	participle	the young male storks not said here	with storks's beaks	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument
5	come	past	the blood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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