Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 167

The birds no longer hovered over him; they had got tired of him, and he was tired of them.

Who acts: birds, aeronaut · What happens: hover, get, be

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, aeronaut), 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	5 hovered	nsubj
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hovered	advmod
5	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hovered	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hovered	parataxis
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hovered	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tired	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hover	past	the birds	over aeronaut; long property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location
2	get	past · perfect	birds = bird	tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	aeronaut	of birds = bird; tired property	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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