Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 88

They sat in an aerial dwelling, and it flew with them through the air.

Who acts: branches, dwelling · What happens: sit, fly · To what, where: aerial dwelling, air

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 (branches, dwelling), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 dwelling	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dwelling	det
5	aerial	aerial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dwelling	amod
6	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	obl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	branches = branch			a aerial dwelling			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dwelling=Location
2	fly	past	dwelling			the air		with branches = branch	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location

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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