--- title: Then he flew back quickly to the stork-mamma and told her what he ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he flew back quickly to the stork-mamma and told her what he had seen and done; and the little storks listened to it all, for they were then quite old enough to do so. " Who acts: king, little storks, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** king, little storks, storks · **What happens:** fly back, tell, see, do, listen, be · **To what, where:** child, hole · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (king, little storks, storks), 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:pg27200:83:68 # text = Then he flew back quickly to the stork-mamma and told her what he had seen and done; and the little storks listened to it all, for they were then quite old enough to do so. " 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly back** | past | king | | | | then | to the stork mamma *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mamma=Result | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* | | child | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** | past · perfect | king | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | participle | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **listen** | past | the little storks | hole | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | storks *= stork* | | | | then | enough, old *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | storks *= stork* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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