Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 39

Sometimes when I woke, the storm-birds would fly about my legs.

Who acts: I, storm birds · What happens: wake, fly

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 (I, storm birds), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 woke	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 woke	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 woke	nsubj
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 storm	punct
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 woke	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 legs	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	I					sometimes property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fly	would	the storm birds					about my legs	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about leg=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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