Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 37

The birds, great and small, flew about in terror and tribulation; the peewit from the fields, and the crows and daws from the high trees, screamed and screamed; it was just such din as the family will raise to the present day.

Who acts: birds, tribulation, family · What happens: fly, scream, be, raise · To what, where: high trees, such din

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, tribulation, family), 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	8 flew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 small	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 great	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 birds	punct
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 terror	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 terror	case
11	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tribulation	cc
13	tribulation	tribulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terror	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 peewit	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 peewit	det
16	peewit	peewit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 fields	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 peewit	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crows	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crows	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crows	det
23	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 peewit	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 daws	cc
25	daws	daw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crows	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 trees	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crows	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screamed	punct
31	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 trees	acl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 screamed	cc
33	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 screamed	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 din	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 din	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 din	cop
37	just	just	ADV	_	39 din	advmod
38	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 din	amod
39	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	conj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 raise	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 family	det
42	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 raise	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 raise	aux
44	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 din	acl
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 day	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 day	det
47	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 day	amod
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 raise	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the birds			about terror and tribulation	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about terror=Location
2	scream speech: express	participle		the high trees not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	participle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	tribulation	such din			tree rules
5	raise	future	the family	such din not said here	day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent din=Theme

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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