Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 66
The storks flew one behind the other, and had already been a long, long time on the wing.
Who acts: storks · What happens: fly, have, be · To what, where: one, other, long long time, wing
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 storks | det |
| 2 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 flew | obj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 other | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 time | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 time | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wing | det |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the storks | one | the other | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme behind other=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | the storks not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | a long long time | the wing | tree rules |
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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