Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 76

"Now you will see the gold-jacket fly," said the old man, letting the sparrow go, which flew away in deadly fear, with the sun shining upon her.

Who acts: you, old man, sparrow, sun · What happens: see, say, let, go, fly away, shine · To what, where: jacket fly, sparrow, deadly fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, old man, sparrow, sun), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 see	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fly	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jacket	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 gold	punct
9	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	compound
10	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 letting	punct
18	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sparrow	det
20	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 letting	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 letting	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 flew	nsubj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 letting	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 fear	case
27	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fear	amod
28	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sun	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fear	conj
33	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 sun	acl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shining	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	you	the jacket fly		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	gerund	the old man not said here	the sparrow				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the sparrow not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly away	past			deadly fear and the sun		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Location
6	shine	gerund	the sun not said here				upon sun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=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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