--- title: A little way off, on the edge of the roof, stood the father stork, q… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A little way off, on the edge of the roof, stood the father stork, quite upright and stiff; not liking to be quite idle, he drew up one leg, and stood on the other, so still that it seemed almost as if he were carved in wood. " Who acts: he, it. 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" **Who acts:** he, it · **What happens:** stand, not like, be, draw up, seem, carve · **To what, where:** father stork, edge, one leg, other, he, wood 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 (he, it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:183:2 # text = A little way off, on the edge of the roof, stood the father stork, quite upright and stiff; not liking to be quite idle, he drew up one leg, and stood on the other, so still that it seemed almost as if he were carved in wood. " 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 off off ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 liking like VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 47 almost almost ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 as as SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 49 if if SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 xcomp _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | the father stork | | the edge of the roof | | off *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stork=Theme on edge=Destination | | 2 | **not** **like** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | idle *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **draw up** | past | he | one leg | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | | | | the other | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on other=Location | | 6 | **seem** | past | it | | | | still | almost *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **carve** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | he | | wood | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/3/) - ↑ back to [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/)