--- title: Meanwhile, the stork-papa told the story to his family in his own wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile, the stork-papa told the story to his family in his own way; but not till they had eaten and were satisfied; otherwise they would have had something else to do than to listen to stories. Who acts: stork papa, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork papa, men), 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:pg27200:88:3 # text = Meanwhile, the stork-papa told the story to his family in his own way; but not till they had eaten and were satisfied; otherwise they would have had something else to do than to listen to stories. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 papa papa NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 20 till till SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 33 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 else else ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 37 than than SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the stork papa | the story | | | | to papa's family in papa's own way; meanwhile *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **eat** | past · perfect | men *= man* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | satisfied *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | would · perfect | men *= man* | something | | | | otherwise *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | to stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/4/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)