Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 236

So soon as she lay in the earth, the birds disappeared; but on the same evening in Jutland, at the old manor house, an enormous number of crows and choughs were seen; they all cried as loud as they could, as if they had some announcement to make.

Who acts: number, birds · What happens: lie, disappear, see, cry, have, make · To what, where: earth, old manor house, announcement

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 (number, birds), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lay	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 lay	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 disappeared	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 disappeared	nsubj
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 seen	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 evening	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 evening	amod
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Jutland	case
20	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 evening	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 house	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
25	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	compound
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 number	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 number	det
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 number	amod
30	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 crows	case
32	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 number	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 choughs	cc
34	choughs	chough	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crows	conj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lay	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 cried	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 cried	nsubj
39	all	all	ADV	_	40 cried	advmod
40	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 loud	advmod
42	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cried	xcomp
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 could	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 could	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 loud	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 had	mark
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 had	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cried	conj
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 announcement	det
52	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 make	mark
54	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 had	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	number		the earth		soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location
2	disappear	past	the birds					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past · passive		the old manor house and a enormous number of crows and choughs		evening		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	past	birds = bird				all, loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	birds = bird	some announcement				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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