Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 122
The dogs came leaping along, and whole flocks of wild-fowl flew over the cairn, where blackberry-bushes were hanging round the old stones.
Who acts: dogs, whole flocks, blackberry bushes · What happens: come, leap, fly, hang · To what, where: cairn, old stones
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, whole flocks, blackberry bushes), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dogs | det |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 leaping | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flocks | amod |
| 9 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fowl | case |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fowl | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wild | punct |
| 13 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flocks | nmod |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 cairn | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cairn | det |
| 17 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hanging | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 hanging | advmod |
| 20 | blackberry | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bushes | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 blackberry | punct |
| 22 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hanging | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hanging | aux |
| 24 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flew | conj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 stones | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stones | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hanging | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leap | gerund | the dogs not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | whole flocks of wild fowl | the cairn | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cairn=Location | ||||
| 4 | hang | past · progressive | blackberry bushes | the old stones | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round stone=Destination |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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