Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 41

"Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here.

Who acts: Craw craw, birds · What happens: cry, fly away, follow, come back, be · To what, where: great black birds

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 (Craw craw, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 craw	punct
2	Craw	craw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 craw	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Craw	punct
4	craw	craw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 craw	punct
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 craw	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 away	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 here	case
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 away	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 craw	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 craw	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	parataxis
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 flew	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 day	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 home	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 home	case
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 home	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 home	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 home	case
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 home	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Craw craw	the great black birds				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	fly away	past	birds = bird				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	past	birds = bird			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	birds = bird		here		for home	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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