Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 113
The birds in their flight towards the east, carried the tidings, and the news reached the castle in the Tree of the Sun.
Who acts: birds, news · What happens: carry, reach · To what, where: tidings, castle, Tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, news), 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 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 flight | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 east | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 east | det |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 birds | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tidings | det |
| 12 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 news | det |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tree | det |
| 22 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sun. | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sun. | det |
| 25 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tree | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the birds in birds's flight towards the east | the tidings | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the news | the castle | the Tree of the Sun. | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=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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