Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 252

The granddaughter, the last of her race, had come back to the old home, where the old castle had stood, where the black wild birds were screaming; but she sat among the tame birds, and these knew her and were fond of her.

Who acts: granddaughter, black wild birds, these · What happens: come back, stand, scream, sit, know, be · To what, where: old home, old castle, granddaughter

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 (granddaughter, black wild birds, these), 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 granddaughter	det
2	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 last	det
5	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 granddaughter	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 race	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 race	nmod:poss
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 granddaughter	punct
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 home	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 home	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 home	amod
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 stood	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 castle	amod
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	aux
23	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 home	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screaming	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 screaming	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 birds	det
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 birds	amod
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 birds	amod
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 screaming	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 screaming	aux
31	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stood	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 sat	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	conj
36	among	among	ADP	_	39 birds	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 birds	det
38	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 birds	amod
39	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sat	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 knew	cc
42	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 knew	nsubj
43	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sat	parataxis
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knew	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fond	cc
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fond	cop
47	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 knew	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 her	case
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fond	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past · perfect	the granddaughter		the old home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
2	stand	past · perfect · passive		the old castle			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	scream speech: express	past · progressive	the black wild birds				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	granddaughter			among the tame birds	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bird=Location
5	know	past	these	granddaughter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	is	past	these not said here			of granddaughter; fond property	tree rules
7	race		granddaughter				nom race «event 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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