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title: On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, and the mother stork sat in it with her four young ones, who stretched out their necks and pointed their black beaks, which had not yet turned red like those of the parent birds. Who acts: mother stork, four young ones, black beaks. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 1

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On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, and the mother stork sat in it with her four young ones, who stretched out their necks and pointed their black beaks, which had not yet turned red like those of the parent birds.

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**Who acts:** mother stork, four young ones, black beaks · **What happens:** build, sit, stretch out, point, have, not turn · **To what, where:** storks, last house, nest, necks, black beaks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother stork, four young ones, black beaks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:183:1
# text = On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, and the mother stork sat in it with her four young ones, who stretched out their necks and pointed their black beaks, which had not yet turned red like those of the parent birds.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	xcomp	_	_
45	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | the storks |  | the last house in a little village |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the mother stork |  |  | nest |  | with her four young ones | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
| 3 | **stretch out** | past | her four young ones | storks's necks |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 4 | **point** | past | her four young ones *not said here* | storks's black beaks |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | storks's black beaks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **turn** | participle | storks's black beaks *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | like those; red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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