Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 99

Then they all got excited; they hit out with their wings, pecked with their beaks, and flop! one after another was thrown out of the nest.

Who acts: children · What happens: get, hit out, peck, flop, throw · To what, where: one, another, nest

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 (children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 hit	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 wings	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pecked	punct
14	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hit	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 beaks	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beaks	nmod:poss
17	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pecked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flop	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flop	cc
20	flop	flop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 flop	obj
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 thrown	mark
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 thrown	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thrown	aux:pass
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 one	acl
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 nest	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 nest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nest	det
30	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	children = child			then	excited property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hit out	past	children = child				with children's wings	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument
3	peck	participle	children = child not said here				with children's beaks	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument
4	flop	infinitive	children = child not said here	one				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
5	throw	past · passive		another	the nest			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme out nest=Initial_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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