Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 20

They rolled their eyes, and mother owl, beating her wings, said: "Don't listen to her!

Who acts: ears · What happens: roll, beat, say, not listen · To what, where: eyes, wings, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ears), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rolled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 owl	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 owl	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owl	compound
8	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beating	punct
10	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rolled	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beating	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	parataxis
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 listen	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 listen	punct
17	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 listen	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 listen	advmod
19	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listen	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	roll	past	ears = ear	ears's eyes		mother owl obl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent
2	beat	gerund	ears = ear not said here	family's wings			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not listen in a quote	infinitive · do-support			family		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme

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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