Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 21
The birds screamed as loud as they could, and one of the greatest of them hacked him with its beak over the eye so that the blood ran down, and it was at first thought the eye had been destroyed; but it had not been injured after all.
Who acts: birds, blood, it · What happens: scream, hack, run down, be, destroy, not injure · To what, where: birds, Soren, eye, blood · Speech: someone speaks here
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, blood, it), 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 | 17 hacked | nsubj |
| 3 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 birds | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 screamed | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 loud | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hacked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hacked | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hacked | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 greatest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 greatest | det |
| 14 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 greatest | nmod |
| 17 | hacked | hack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hacked | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 beak | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beak | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hacked | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 eye | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beak | nmod |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 ran | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 blood | det |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hacked | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 ran | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thought | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 thought | cop |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 first | case |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 thought | obl |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hacked | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 eye | det |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 destroyed | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 42 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 injured | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 injured | cc |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 injured | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 injured | advmod |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 injured | aux:pass |
| 49 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hacked | parataxis |
| 50 | after | after | ADP | _ | 51 all | case |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 injured | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | participle | the birds not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hack | past | the birds | Soren | with age's beak over the eye | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with beak=Instrument | |||
| 3 | run down | past | the blood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be speech: other | past | it | think property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | destroy | past · perfect · passive | the eye | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | not injure | past · perfect · passive | blood | after all | 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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