Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 45

Then she flew a little distance from them, and the young ones made a spring to follow her; but down they fell plump, for their bodies were still too heavy.

Who acts: drilling, young ones, feet, bodies · What happens: fly, make, follow, fall, be · To what, where: little distance, drilling

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drilling, young ones, feet, bodies), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 distance	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 follow	mark
18	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 follow	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	24 fell	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
25	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heavy	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 heavy	mark
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bodies	nmod:poss
29	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heavy	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heavy	cop
31	still	still	ADV	_	33 heavy	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 heavy	advmod
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	drilling	a little distance	then	from feet = foot	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent distance=Theme from they=Initial_Location
2	make	past	the young ones		spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	follow	to-infinitive	the young ones not said here	drilling			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	fall	past	feet = foot			down, plump property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	feet's bodies		still	heavy property	tree rules

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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