Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 62
That last flap of the wings was so easy and graceful, that I shall give you permission to fly with me to-morrow to the marshes.
Who acts: last flap, I · What happens: be, give, fly · To what, where: permission, you
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 (last flap, I), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 flap | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flap | amod |
| 3 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wings | det |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flap | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 easy | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 easy | advmod |
| 9 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 graceful | cc |
| 11 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 easy | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 easy | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fly | mark |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 permission | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fly | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 morrow | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 marshes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 marshes | det |
| 28 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fly | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that last flap of the wings | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | that last flap of the wings not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | shall | I | permission | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient permission=Theme | |||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | I not said here | permission not said here | with me; to morrow result; to the marshes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to morrow=Result |
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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