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title: The young storks were very angry, and grew worse as they grew older;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young storks were very angry, and grew worse as they grew older; so at last their mother was obliged to promise that they should be revenged, but not until the day of their departure. Who acts: young storks, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The St
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 74

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The young storks were very angry, and grew worse as they grew older; so at last their mother was obliged to promise that they should be revenged, but not until the day of their departure.

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**Who acts:** young storks, storks · **What happens:** be, grow, oblige, promise, revenge, depart · **To what, where:** storks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young storks, storks), 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:pg27200:183:74
# text = The young storks were very angry, and grew worse as they grew older; so at last their mother was obliged to promise that they should be revenged, but not until the day of their departure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	revenged	revenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	until	until	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young storks |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | at storks's last mother | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **revenge** | should · passive |  | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **depart** |  | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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