Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 87
The other birds, too, now fell upon the sparrow and plucked off feather after feather until she fell bleeding into the rose-bush.
Who acts: other birds, mother · What happens: fall, pluck off, bleed · To what, where: sparrow, feather, rose bush
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 (other birds, mother), 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 | 3 birds | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 birds | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sparrow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrow | det |
| 11 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plucked | cc |
| 13 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fell | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 plucked | compound:prt |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plucked | obj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 feather | case |
| 17 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plucked | obl |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 fell | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 plucked | advcl |
| 21 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 bush | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bush | det |
| 24 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bush | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 rose | punct |
| 26 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bleeding | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the other birds | the sparrow | now | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sparrow=Location | |||
| 2 | pluck off | participle | the other birds not said here | feather | after feather | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||
| 3 | fall | past | mother | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bleed | gerund | mother not said here | the rose bush | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=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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