Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 30
The little boy was frightened and sprang from the chair; at the same moment it seemed as if a large bird flew by the window.
Who acts: it, large bird · What happens: frighten, spring, seem, fly · To what, where: little boy, chair
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 (it, large bird), 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 | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprang | cc |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 frightened | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 chair | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chair | det |
| 10 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seemed | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 flew | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 flew | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bird | amod |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seemed | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the little boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spring | participle | the chair | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chair=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | a large bird | by the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by window=Location |
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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