Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 161

Many more of them came swooping down; they thought it must be some new bird, and he soon had a goodly company of followers.

Who acts: Many, birds, flight, invention · What happens: come, swoop down, think, be, have · To what, where: new bird, goodly company · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many, birds, flight, invention), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	nsubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Many	conj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 more	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 swooping	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bird	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bird	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bird	cop
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bird	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 company	det
23	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 company	amod
24	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 followers	case
26	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 company	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Many			tree rules
2	swoop down	gerund	Many not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	birds = bird			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	must	flight	some new bird		tree rules
5	have	past	invention	a goodly company of followers	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient

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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