Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 93

He now fluttered down into the grass, turned his head gracefully on every side, and with his bill pecked the pliant blades of grass, which, in comparison to his present size, seemed as majestic as the palm-branches of northern Africa.

Who acts: doubt · What happens: flutter down, turn, peck, seem, bill · To what, where: grass, head, side, pliant blades

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fluttered	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fluttered	advmod
3	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fluttered	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fluttered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fluttered	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obj
12	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 side	det
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pecked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pecked	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 bill	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bill	nmod:poss
20	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pecked	obl
21	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fluttered	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blades	det
23	pliant	pliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 blades	amod
24	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pecked	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 grass	case
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blades	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 comparison	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 comparison	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 comparison	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 comparison	case
31	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blades	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 size	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 size	nmod:poss
34	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 size	amod
35	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comparison	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seemed	punct
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pecked	conj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 majestic	advmod
39	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 seemed	xcomp
40	as	as	ADP	_	44 branches	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 branches	det
42	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 branches	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 palm	punct
44	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 majestic	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Africa	case
46	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Africa	amod
47	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 branches	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter down	past	doubt		the grass	now	down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	doubt not said here	doubt's head	every side		gracefully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	peck	past	doubt not said here	the pliant blades of grass and comparison to doubt's present size			with doubt's bill	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blade=Patient with bill=Instrument
4	seem	past	doubt not said here				majestic property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	bill		doubt					nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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