Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 162

They came in clouds till the air became darkened with birds as it was with the cloud of locusts over the land of Egypt.

Who acts: birds, flight · What happens: come, darken, be · To what, where: clouds, land

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, flight), 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 clouds	case
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
5	till	till	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 darkened	obl
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 darkened	aux:pass
9	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 birds	case
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 darkened	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 cloud	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cloud	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cloud	cop
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 cloud	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cloud	det
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 darkened	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 locusts	case
19	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cloud	nmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cloud	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Egypt	case
24	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 land	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	birds = bird	clouds			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location
2	darken	past · passive			till the air	with birds	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with bird=Instrument
3	is	past	flight	the land of Egypt		with the cloud; of locusts	tree rules

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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