--- title: The Stork's beak pinched her, and the wind whistled; it was not exac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Stork's beak pinched her, and the wind whistled; it was not exactly agreeable, but she was going upward--upward towards Egypt--and she knew it; and that was why her eyes gleamed, and a spark seemed to fly out of them. Who acts: beak, wind, that, eyes. 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C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beak, wind, that, eyes), 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:pg27200:194:167 # text = The Stork's beak pinched her, and the wind whistled; it was not exactly agreeable, but she was going upward--upward towards Egypt--and she knew it; and that was why her eyes gleamed, and a spark seemed to fly out of them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Stork Stork PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pinched pinch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 23 upward upward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 upward upward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 towards towards ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 gleamed gleam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 out out ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pinch** | past | the Stork's beak | naturalist | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 2 | **whistle** | past | the wind | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | wind | | | | | agreeable, exactly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | beak | | | Egypt | | upward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards egypt=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **know** | past | beak | wind | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **gleam** | past | beak's eyes | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **seem** | past | a spark | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 9 | **fly out** | to-infinitive | a spark *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | 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 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/168/) - ↑ back to [The Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/)