Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 41

They flew into the tower and out again, they looked down upon the throng below, and they also looked into the windows of the church, and screamed out aloud what they saw there.

Who acts: crows · What happens: fly, look down, look, scream out, see · To what, where: tower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows), 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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
7	out	out	ADV	_	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 throng	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 throng	det
15	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
16	below	below	ADV	_	15 throng	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 looked	advmod
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 windows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 windows	det
24	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 church	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 church	det
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 windows	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 screamed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 screamed	cc
30	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 screamed	compound:prt
32	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	33 what	advmod
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 screamed	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 saw	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	crows = crow	the tower			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tower=Destination
2	look down	past	crows = crow		again	upon the throng; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon throng=Theme
3	look	past	crows = crow			into the windows of the church	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into window=Theme
4	scream out speech: express	participle	crows = crow not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	see	past	crows = crow	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

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