Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 160

And all three sparrows wanted to fly over the roses and the chimney, but flew against a flat wall.

Who acts: three sparrows · What happens: want, fly · To what, where: roses, flat wall

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sparrows), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sparrows	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sparrows	nummod
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 roses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roses	det
10	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chimney	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chimney	det
13	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roses	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 flew	cc
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
17	against	against	ADP	_	20 wall	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wall	det
19	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wall	amod
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	want	past	all three sparrows		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	all three sparrows not said here	the roses and the chimney	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rose=Location
3	fly	past	all three sparrows not said here	a flat wall	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=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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