Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 88

Then he spread his wings, and flew away to warmer countries, while the hens clucked, the ducks quacked, and the turkey-cock turned quite scarlet in the head.

Who acts: Hjalmar, hens, ducks, turkey cock · What happens: spread, fly away, cluck, quack, turn · To what, where: wings, scarlet

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 (Hjalmar, hens, ducks, turkey cock), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spread	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 countries	case
11	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 countries	amod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clucked	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 clucked	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hens	det
16	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clucked	nsubj
17	clucked	cluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 quacked	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ducks	det
20	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 quacked	nsubj
21	quacked	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clucked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cock	det
25	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cock	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 turkey	punct
27	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	conj
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 scarlet	advmod
30	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 head	det
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Hjalmar	Hjalmar's wings	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	fly away	past				to warmer countries result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to country=Result
3	cluck	past	the hens				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	quack	past	the ducks				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	the turkey cock	scarlet		in the head	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent scarlet=Patient in head=Topic

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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