--- title: In the street below were a number of children at play, and when they… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the street below were a number of children at play, and when they caught sight of the storks, one of the boldest amongst the boys began to sing a song about them, and very soon he was joined by the rest. Who acts: number, children, rest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 5 In the street below were a number of children at play, and when they caught sight of the storks, one of the boldest amongst the boys began to sing a song about them, and very soon he was joined by the rest. **Who acts:** number, children, rest · **What happens:** be, catch, begin, sing, join, sight · **To what, where:** street, sight, song, number, storks 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 (number, children, rest), 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:pg27200:183:5 # text = In the street below were a number of children at play, and when they caught sight of the storks, one of the boldest amongst the boys began to sing a song about them, and very soon he was joined by the rest. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 below below ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 17 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boldest bold ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 nmod _ _ 26 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a number of children at play | | | the street | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | | 2 | **catch** | past | children *= child* | sight of the storks | | | | one of the boldest *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | a song | | | | about storks *= stork* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 5 | **join** | past · passive | the rest | number | | | | soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 6 | **sight** | | | the storks | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/6/) - ↑ back to [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/)