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title: The young male storks soon began to quarrel; they struck at each oth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young male storks soon began to quarrel; they struck at each other with their wings, and pecked with their beaks till the blood came. Who acts: young male storks, storks, blood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 58

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The young male storks soon began to quarrel; they struck at each other with their wings, and pecked with their beaks till the blood came.

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**Who acts:** young male storks, storks, blood · **What happens:** begin, quarrel, strike, peck, come

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young male storks, storks, blood), 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:pg27200:84:58
# text = The young male storks soon began to quarrel; they struck at each other with their wings, and pecked with their beaks till the blood came.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the young male storks |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | the young male storks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | past | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | with storks's wings; at each | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at each=Patient with wing=Instrument |
| 4 | **peck** | participle | the young male storks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with storks's beaks | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument |
| 5 | **come** | past | the blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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