Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 67
One of them seemed so tired that his wings could scarcely carry him.
Who acts: One, wings · What happens: seem, carry · To what, where: land
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 (One, wings), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tired | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | One of storks | tired property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | land's wings | land | scarcely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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