Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 118
However, he flew to a tree, and stood flapping his black wings as long as he could see the coach, which glittered in the bright sunshine.
Who acts: prince, coach · What happens: fly, stand, flap, see, glitter · To what, where: black wings, coach, bright sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, coach), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | flapping | flap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stood | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flapping | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 flapping | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 long | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coach | det |
| 22 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 glittered | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 glittered | nsubj |
| 25 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 coach | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sunshine | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sunshine | det |
| 28 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sunshine | amod |
| 29 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 glittered | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | prince | to a tree result; however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | prince not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | flap | gerund | prince not said here | prince's black wings | long property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 4 | see | could | prince | the coach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | glitter | past | the coach | the bright sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=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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