--- title: And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, fle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, flew to the castle, picked a hole with his beak in the bladder-covered window, and laid the beautiful child in the bosom of the Viking's wife. Who acts: stork. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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:pg27200:83:67 # text = And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, flew to the castle, picked a hole with his beak in the bladder-covered window, and laid the beautiful child in the bosom of the Viking's wife. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 bladder bladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Viking Viking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | the stork | the little girl | | the flower cup | then | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme out cup=Destination | | 2 | **fly** | past | | | | | | to the castle *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result | | 3 | **pick** | past | | a hole | | the covered window | | with king's beak | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | past | | the beautiful child | | the bosom of the Viking's wife | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in bosom=Destination | | 6 | **bosom** | | | the Viking's wife | | | | | nom bosom «state 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/68/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/)