Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 34

It seemed as though the birds knew that they were protected here, and that no one must fire a gun at them.

Who acts: It, birds, one · What happens: seem, know, protect, fire · To what, where: fire gun, birds · 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 (It, birds, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 knew	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 protected	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 protected	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 protected	aux:pass
11	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 knew	ccomp
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 protected	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gun	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gun	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 fire	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fire	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fire	aux
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gun	compound
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gun	det
21	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gun	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	It	a fire gun at birds		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	the birds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	protect	past · passive		birds = bird	here	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	fire	must	no one			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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