Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 214
Storks and pelicans flew after him in feathery bands, to accompany him to the boundaries of the garden.
Who acts: Storks · What happens: fly, accompany · To what, where: feathery bands, prince, boundaries
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 (Storks), 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 | Storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pelicans | cc |
| 3 | pelicans | pelican | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Storks | conj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bands | case |
| 8 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bands | amod |
| 9 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accompany | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 accompany | mark |
| 12 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flew | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accompany | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 boundaries | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boundaries | det |
| 16 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 accompany | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boundaries | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Storks and pelicans | feathery bands | after prince | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in band=Location | |||
| 2 | accompany | to-infinitive | Storks and pelicans not said here | prince | the boundaries of the garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to boundary=Destination |
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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