Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 46

Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds' nests, and saw the unfledged nestlings opening their mouths and screaming for food.

Who acts: I, unfledged nestlings · What happens: go, look, see, open, scream · To what, where: sea shore, unfledged nestlings, mouths

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, unfledged nestlings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shore	compound
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 nests	case
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 nests	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 birds	case
14	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nestlings	det
19	unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nestlings	amod
20	nestlings	nestling	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	obj
21	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 nestlings	acl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouths	nmod:poss
23	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 opening	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 screaming	cc
25	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 opening	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 food	case
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 screaming	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I		the sea shore	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
2	look	to-infinitive	I not said here			after birds's nests		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	I not said here	the unfledged nestlings				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nestling=Stimulus
4	open	gerund	the unfledged nestlings not said here	nestlings's mouths				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5	scream speech: express	gerund	the unfledged nestlings not said here				for food	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient

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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