Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 26

Above them, on laths and perches, were more than a hundred pigeons, who all seemed to be asleep, although they moved slightly when the two little girls came near them. "

Who acts: laths, hundred pigeons, two little girls · What happens: be, seem, move, come · To what, where: hundred pigeons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laths, hundred pigeons, two little girls), 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	Above	above	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laths	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laths	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 laths	case
5	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pigeons	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 perches	cc
7	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laths	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laths	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pigeons	cop
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 hundred	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hundred	det
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pigeons	nummod
14	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seemed	nsubj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 seemed	advmod
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pigeons	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 asleep	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 moved	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 moved	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 moved	nsubj
25	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	conj
26	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	25 moved	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 girls	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 girls	nummod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 girls	amod
31	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moved	advcl
33	near	near	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pigeons	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 pigeons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	laths and perches	hundred pigeons		tree rules
2	seem	past	hundred pigeons		all property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	hundred pigeons not said here		asleep property	tree rules
4	move	past	laths = lath		slightly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the two little girls		near carpets = carpet	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=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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