Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 3

Meanwhile, the stork-papa told the story to his family in his own way; but not till they had eaten and were satisfied; otherwise they would have had something else to do than to listen to stories.

Who acts: stork papa, men · What happens: tell, not eat, be, have, do, listen · To what, where: story, something · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork papa, men), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 papa	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 papa	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 stork	punct
6	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 way	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 family	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 eaten	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 eaten	advmod
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 satisfied	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 satisfied	cop
26	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eaten	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
28	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	32 had	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 had	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	aux
32	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	parataxis
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 had	obj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 something	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 something	acl
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 listen	mark
38	to	to	PART	_	39 listen	mark
39	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 do	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 stories	case
41	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 listen	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the stork papa	the story	to papa's family in papa's own way; meanwhile property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not eat	past · perfect	men = man			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	men = man not said here		satisfied property	tree rules
4	have	would · perfect	men = man	something	otherwise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	something not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here		to stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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