Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 9
As she was flying upon the roost, she plucked herself with her beak, and a little feather came out.
Who acts: sun, little feather · What happens: fly, pluck, come out · To what, where: roost, sun
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 (sun, little feather), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 flying | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 plucked | advcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 roost | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roost | det |
| 7 | roost | roost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 plucked | nsubj |
| 10 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 plucked | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 beak | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plucked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feather | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feather | amod |
| 19 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plucked | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | sun | the roost | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon roost=Location | ||||
| 2 | pluck | past | sun | sun | with sun's beak | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | come out | past | a little feather | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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