Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 117
The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house.
Who acts: great white sea mews · What happens: fly, scream · To what, where: head, crows, home
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 (great white sea mews), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mews | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mews | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mews | amod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mews | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | mews | mew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 screamed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 screamed | cc |
| 13 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flew | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 crows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crows | det |
| 16 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 screamed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 daws | cc |
| 18 | daws | daw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crows | conj |
| 19 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 crows | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 screamed | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 garden | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 screamed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | compound |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 garden | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the great white sea mews | seashore's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | participle | the great white sea mews not said here | as the crows and daws | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | participle | the crows and daws not said here | home | in the garden of the manor house | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=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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