Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 69
At length he sunk lower and lower, with outstretched wings, flapping them in vain, till his feet touched the rigging of the ship, and he slided from the sails to the deck, and stood before them.
Who acts: wing, feet · What happens: sink, outstretch, flap, touch, slid, stand · To what, where: length, storks, rigging, sails
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 (wing, feet), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sunk | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sunk | nsubj |
| 4 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sunk | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lower | cc |
| 7 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 lower | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wings | case |
| 10 | outstretched | outstretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wings | amod |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sunk | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flapping | punct |
| 13 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sunk | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flapping | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flapping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 touched | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 touched | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 touched | nsubj |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sunk | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rigging | det |
| 23 | rigging | rigging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 touched | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ship | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rigging | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 slided | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 slided | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 slided | nsubj |
| 30 | slided | slid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 touched | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 sails | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sails | det |
| 33 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 slided | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 deck | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 deck | det |
| 36 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slided | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stood | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stood | cc |
| 39 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sunk | conj |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stood | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | wing | length | with outstretched wings; low property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument | |||
| 2 | outstretch | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | flap | gerund | wing not said here | storks = stork | in vain | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in vain=Topic | |||
| 4 | touch | past | wing's feet | the rigging of the ship | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rigging=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | slid | past | wing | the sails | to the deck | tree rules | |||
| 6 | stand | past | wing not said here | before storks = stork | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location |
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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