Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 61

The storks were coming home; and the old stork pair, although tired with the journey and requiring rest, did not fail to fly down at once to the balustrades of the verandah, for they knew already what feast was being celebrated.

Who acts: storks, balustrades · What happens: come, be, require, not fail, fly down, know · To what, where: old stork pair, rest, feast

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 (storks, balustrades), 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 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pair	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pair	cop
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 were	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 coming	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 pair	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pair	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pair	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	amod
10	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pair	compound
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tired	punct
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	14 tired	case
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	amod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 journey	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 journey	det
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tired	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 requiring	cc
19	requiring	require	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tired	conj
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 requiring	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fail	punct
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fail	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 fail	advmod
24	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pair	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fail	xcomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 fly	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 fly	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 balustrades	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 balustrades	det
32	balustrades	balustrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fly	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 verandah	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 verandah	det
35	verandah	verandah	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 balustrades	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knew	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 knew	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knew	nsubj
39	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fail	parataxis
40	already	already	ADV	_	41 what	advmod
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 knew	obj
42	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 celebrated	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 celebrated	aux:pass
44	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 celebrated	aux:pass
45	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 what	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	the storks not said here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the storks	the old stork pair		tree rules
3	require	gerund	the storks not said here	rest		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Precondition
4	not fail	past · do-support	the storks not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fly down	to-infinitive	the storks not said here		to the balustrades of the verandah; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
6	know	past	balustrades = balustrade			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
7	celebrate	past · passive		feast		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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