Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 118

The birds flew quite close to her, and at last it seemed to her as if they became black as crows, and then all was night before her eyes.

Who acts: birds, last · What happens: fly, seem, become, be · To what, where: eyes, seashore, night

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 (birds, last), 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	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flew	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	nsubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 last	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 became	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 became	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seemed	advcl
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 crows	case
22	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 black	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 night	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 night	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 night	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 night	det
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 night	cop
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl:unmarked
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the birds			seashore's eyes		close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before eye=Location
2	seem	past	last		seashore				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	birds = bird					black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is a	past		all night			then		tree rules

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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