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title: As soon as the autumn arrived, all the storks began to assemble toge… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the autumn arrived, all the storks began to assemble together before taking their departure for warm countries during the winter. Who acts: autumn, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 79

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As soon as the autumn arrived, all the storks began to assemble together before taking their departure for warm countries during the winter.

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**Who acts:** autumn, storks · **What happens:** arrive, begin, assemble, take, depart · **To what, where:** departure

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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 (autumn, 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:pg27200:183:79
# text = As soon as the autumn arrived, all the storks began to assemble together before taking their departure for warm countries during the winter.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | all storks |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **assemble** | to-infinitive | all storks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | all storks *not said here* | storks's departure |  |  | winter | for warm countries | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent departure=Theme for country=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **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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