Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 65
They sailed till the land disappeared, and then they saw a flock of storks, who had left their own country, and were travelling to warmer climates.
Who acts: clothes, land, storks · What happens: sail, disappear, see, leave, travel · To what, where: flock, own country, warmer climates
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, land, storks), 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 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 disappeared | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 storks | case |
| 15 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flock | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 left | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 storks | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 travelling | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 travelling | cc |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 travelling | aux |
| 26 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 climates | case |
| 28 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 climates | amod |
| 29 | climates | climate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 travelling | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | clothes | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the land | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | clothes | a flock of storks | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | storks | clothes's own country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 5 | travel | past · progressive | clothes not said here | warmer climates | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to climate=Destination |
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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