Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 18

"Bend your head as we do," cried the ears of corn; "the angel of the storm is coming; his wings spread from the sky above to the earth beneath.

Who acts: you, we, ears, angel, wings · What happens: bend, do, cry, come, spread · To what, where: head, sky · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, ears, angel), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bend	punct
2	Bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bend	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Bend	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ears	det
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 corn	case
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ears	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 coming	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 coming	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 angel	det
18	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coming	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 storm	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 storm	det
21	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 angel	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 coming	aux
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Bend	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 spread	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wings	nmod:poss
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spread	nsubj
27	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Bend	parataxis
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 sky	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sky	det
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spread	obl
31	above	above	ADV	_	27 spread	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spread	obl
35	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	27 spread	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Bend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	do in a quote	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	the ears of corn				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	present · progressive	the angel of the storm				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spread in a quote	present	angel's wings		the sky	to the earth; above, beneath property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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