Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 140
The flag of the corporation fluttered before it, and the journeymen and apprentices shouted "Hurrah."
What happens: flutter, shout · To what, where: corporation, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 flag | det |
| 2 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 corporation | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corporation | det |
| 5 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flag | nmod |
| 6 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 corporation | acl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fluttered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hurrah | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hurrah | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 journeymen | det |
| 12 | journeymen | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Hurrah | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 apprentices | cc |
| 14 | apprentices | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 journeymen | conj |
| 15 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Hurrah | amod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hurrah | punct |
| 17 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flag | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hurrah | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hurrah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | participle | the corporation not said here | house | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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