Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 81
They flew over forests and villages to show what they could do, for they had a long journey before them.
Who acts: storks · What happens: fly, show, do, have · To what, where: forests, long journey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (storks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 forests | case |
| 4 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 villages | cc |
| 6 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forests | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flew | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 show | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 journey | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 journey | amod |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | storks = stork | forests and villages | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | storks = stork not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | could | storks = stork | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have | past | storks = stork | a long journey | before forests = forest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient |
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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