Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 95
"All over," twittered the swallows, who were also flying eastward towards the Tree of the Sun. It was no good news which they carried home.
Who acts: swallows, swallow, swans · What happens: twitter, fly, be, carry · To what, where: swallows, good news
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 (swallows, swallow, swans), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 twittered | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 twittered | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 All | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 twittered | punct |
| 6 | twittered | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root | |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swallows | det |
| 8 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twittered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flying | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 flying | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flying | aux |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 flying | advmod |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 swallows | acl |
| 14 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 13 flying | advmod |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 Tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tree | det |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Sun. | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sun. | det |
| 20 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | nmod |
| 21 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 news | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 news | cop |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 news | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 news | amod |
| 25 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 carried | obj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carried | nsubj |
| 28 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 news | acl:relcl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 carried | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 twittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | past | the swallows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fly | past · progressive | the swallows | towards the Tree of the Sun.; eastward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards tree=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | swallow | no good news | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | swans = swan | no good news | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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