Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 18

She is the largest of them all, and never remains on the earth, but flies up to the dark clouds.

Who acts: grandmother · What happens: be, not remain, fly up · To what, where: earth

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), 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	4 largest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 largest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 largest	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 largest	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remains	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remains	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 remains	advmod
11	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 largest	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remains	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flies	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 flies	cc
17	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 remains	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 flies	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 clouds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clouds	det
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clouds	amod
22	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flies	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 largest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	grandmother		of bees = bee; large property	tree rules
2	not remain	present		the earth		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
3	fly up	present			to the dark clouds result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cloud=Result

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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