Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 76
It came down with such a bang, that the whole company started up and clapped their wings.
Who acts: yard, whole company · What happens: come down, start up, clap · To what, where: wings
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 (yard, whole company), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bang | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bang | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bang | det |
| 7 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 started | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 company | amod |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 started | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clapped | cc |
| 16 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 started | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clapped | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | yard | with such bang; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start up | past | the whole company | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | clap | past | the whole company not said here | fowls's wings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=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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