Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 141
The eagle in the dark forests flies swiftly; but faster than he flew the East Wind.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: fly · To what, where: East Wind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forests | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forests | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forests | compound |
| 6 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eagle | nmod |
| 7 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 flies | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 faster | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 faster | cc |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 flies | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 flew | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 faster | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wind | det |
| 16 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wind | compound |
| 17 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the eagle in the dark forests | swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | eagle | the East Wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=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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