Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 6

Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent.

Who acts: Birds · What happens: come, fly, not 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), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 regions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 regions	det
4	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 regions	amod
5	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Birds	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 flying	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 absent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 absent	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 stork	case
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 of	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stork	det
14	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 absent	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swallow	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swallow	det
17	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stork	conj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 absent	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 absent	advmod
20	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Birds from the Polar regions			tree rules
2	fly	gerund	Birds from the Polar regions not said here	here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	Birds from the Polar regions not said here		of the stork and the swallow; absent 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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