Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 8
Lonely he flew over the blue swelling billows."
Who acts: caravan · What happens: fly · To what, where: blue swelling billows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan), 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 | Lonely | lonely | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 billows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 billows | det |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 billows | amod |
| 7 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 billows | compound |
| 8 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | caravan | the blue swelling billows | lonely property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over billow=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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