Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 155

Higher than ever I saw any one sit yet; and how he can swim!" she cried, as the Stork soared away through the air with outspread pinions.

Who acts: I, speech, One, Stork · What happens: see, swim, cry, soar away · To what, where: one sit, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, speech, One, Stork), 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	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 saw	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 ever	case
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Higher	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sit	det
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sit	nummod
8	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 swim	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swim	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 swim	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swim	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 swim	aux
15	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saw	parataxis
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 swim	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 swim	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cried	nsubj
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 soared	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 soared	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Stork	det
23	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 soared	nsubj
24	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 soared	advmod
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 air	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soared	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 pinions	case
30	outspread	outspread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pinions	amod
31	pinions	pinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 soared	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	any one sit		yet		tree rules
2	swim	can	speech					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	One					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	soar away in a quote	past	the Stork		the air		with outspread pinions; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory

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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