Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 106

It was gray, wet weather; the wind grew cold, and a flight of black screaming birds flew over her head.

Who acts: bye, wind, flight · What happens: be, grow, scream, fly · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bye, wind, flight), 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	3 gray	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gray	cop
3	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gray	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gray	conj
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flew	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flight	det
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 birds	case
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 birds	amod
18	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 birds	amod
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flight	nmod
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bye		gray property	tree rules
2	grow	past	the wind		cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past	a flight of black screaming birds	flight's head		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location

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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