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title: The young storks performed their part so well that they received a m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young storks performed their part so well that they received a mark of honor, with frogs and snakes as a present. Who acts: young storks, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 82

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The young storks performed their part so well that they received a mark of honor, with frogs and snakes as a present.

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**Who acts:** young storks, storks · **What happens:** perform, receive, mark · **To what, where:** part, mark, honor

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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:pg27200:183:82
# text = The young storks performed their part so well that they received a mark of honor, with frogs and snakes as a present.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past | the young storks | storks's part |  |  |  | well *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | storks *= stork* | a mark of honor |  |  |  | with frogs and snakes; as a present | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 3 | **mark** |  |  | honor |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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