Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 10

While she was speaking, one of the little singing-birds came tumbling head over heels from the roof into the yard.

Who acts: crowing, one · What happens: speak, come, tumble · To what, where: head, heels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowing, one), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 speaking	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 came	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
10	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 birds	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 singing	punct
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 came	xcomp
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tumbling	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 heels	case
17	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tumbling	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 roof	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roof	det
20	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tumbling	obl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 yard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yard	det
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tumbling	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	crowing				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	one of the little singing birds				tree rules
3	tumble	gerund	one of the little singing birds not said here	head	heels	from the roof; into the yard	vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient into yard=Co-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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