Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 202
Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries; one could hardly hear the church bells for their screaming.
Who acts: crows, one, bells · What happens: fly, hear, scream · To what, where: ferry house, church bells
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 (crows, one, bells), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ferry | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flying | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crows | det |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flying | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daws | cc |
| 9 | daws | daw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crows | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flying | aux |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cries | case |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cries | amod |
| 14 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flying | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 16 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 hear | advmod |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 flying | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bells | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bells | compound |
| 22 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hear | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 screaming | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 screaming | nmod:poss |
| 25 | screaming | screaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hear | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | the crows and daws | the ferry house | with loud cries | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over house=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | could | one | the church bells | for bells's screaming; hardly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | scream | bells = bell | nom screaming «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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