Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 4

Crows and choughs flew screaming over the old trees, and there were crowds of birds; they did not seem to get fewer when any one shot among them, but seemed rather to increase.

Who acts: Crows, crowds · What happens: fly, scream, be, not seem, get, seem · To what, where: old trees, one shot

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 (Crows, crowds), 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	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 choughs	cc
3	choughs	chough	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crows	conj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 flew	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 screaming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
14	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 birds	case
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crowds	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seem	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seem	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seem	advmod
21	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flew	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seem	xcomp
24	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 get	xcomp
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 get	advmod
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 shot	det
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 shot	nummod
28	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl:unmarked
29	among	among	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
34	rather	rather	ADV	_	33 seemed	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 increase	mark
36	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 rather	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Crows and choughs				tree rules
2	scream speech: express	gerund	Crows and choughs not said here		the old trees		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location
3	be	past	crowds of birds		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not seem	past · do-support	crowds = crowd				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	get	to-infinitive	crowds = crowd not said here	any one shot		among trees = tree; few property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	seem	past	Crows and choughs not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	increase	to-infinitive	Crows and choughs not said here				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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