Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 17
She is flying there where the swarm is thickest.
Who acts: grandmother, swarm · What happens: fly, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, swarm), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flying | aux |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 flying | advmod |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 thickest | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swarm | det |
| 7 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thickest | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thickest | cop |
| 9 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 flying | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present · progressive | grandmother | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the swarm | thick property | 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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