Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 79

Driven by fear and horror, she flew homeward; she was almost sinking fainting to the earth, while the flock of pursuing birds increased, some even attempting to peck at her.

Who acts: fly, some · What happens: drive, fly, sink, faint, pursue, increase · To what, where: homeward, pursuing birds

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 (fly, some), 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	Driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 fear	case
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Driven	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 horror	cc
5	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Driven	conj
9	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sinking	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sinking	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sinking	aux
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 sinking	advmod
14	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flew	advcl
15	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sinking	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fainting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flock	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 flock	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flock	det
22	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sinking	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 birds	case
24	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 birds	amod
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flock	nmod
26	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 birds	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 attempting	punct
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 attempting	nsubj
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 attempting	advmod
30	attempting	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sinking	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 peck	mark
32	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 attempting	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 peck	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drive	participle			by fear and horror	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	fly	homeward		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme
3	sink	past · progressive	fly		almost property	tree rules
4	faint	gerund	fly not said here		to the earth	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	pursue	gerund				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	increase	participle		pursuing birds not said here		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	attempt	gerund	some			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	peck not said to happen	to-infinitive	some not said here		at fly	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at she=Patient

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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