--- title: The stork brings good fortune--they'll be obliged to acknowledge tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The stork brings good fortune--they'll be obliged to acknowledge that at last." Who acts: stork. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/) / 44 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 44 The stork brings good fortune--they'll be obliged to acknowledge that at last." **Who acts:** stork · **What happens:** bring, oblige, acknowledge · **To what, where:** good fortune, gold, that, last This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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), 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:pg27200:88:44 # text = The stork brings good fortune--they'll be obliged to acknowledge that at last." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 8 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 acknowledge acknowledge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | the stork | good fortune | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | | 2 | **oblige** | future · passive | | gold | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 3 | **acknowledge** | to-infinitive | | that | | last | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/45/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)