Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 14
The thread flew from the wheel, and the wheel whirled faster and faster.
Who acts: thread, wheel · What happens: fly, whirl · To what, where: wheel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, wheel), 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 thread | det |
| 2 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wheel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wheel | det |
| 6 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whirled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whirled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wheel | det |
| 10 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whirled | nsubj |
| 11 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 whirled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 faster | cc |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 faster | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the thread | the wheel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wheel=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | whirl | past | the wheel | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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