Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 39
The Clerk felt a mortal fright, and flew through the window, far away over the houses and streets.
Who acts: Clerk · What happens: feel, fly · To what, where: mortal fright, window
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clerk), 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 Clerk | det |
| 2 | Clerk | Clerk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fright | det |
| 5 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fright | amod |
| 6 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 flew | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 houses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 houses | det |
| 18 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 streets | cc |
| 20 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 houses | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Clerk | a mortal fright | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=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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