Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 40
They are curious birds; they give one flap with their wings, and then on their outstretched pinions soar far away.
Who acts: birds, outstretched pinions · What happens: be, give, soar · To what, where: curious birds, one flap
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 (birds, outstretched pinions), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 birds | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | cop |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | acl:relcl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 flap | nummod |
| 9 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soar | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 soar | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 soar | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 pinions | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pinions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pinions | amod |
| 19 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 soar | nsubj |
| 20 | soar | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | conj |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 soar | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | birds = bird | curious birds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | birds = bird | one flap | with birds's wings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Theme | |||
| 3 | soar | present | birds's outstretched pinions | then | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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