Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 42
The black ravens and crows flew on over the white snow.
Who acts: black ravens · What happens: fly · To what, where: white snow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black ravens), 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 | 3 ravens | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ravens | amod |
| 3 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crows | cc |
| 5 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ravens | conj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 snow | amod |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the black ravens and crows | the white snow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on snow=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: «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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