Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 167
The Stork's beak pinched her, and the wind whistled; it was not exactly agreeable, but she was going upward--upward towards Egypt--and she knew it; and that was why her eyes gleamed, and a spark seemed to fly out of them.
Who acts: beak, wind, that, eyes, spark · What happens: pinch, whistle, not be, go, know, be · To what, where: naturalist, Egypt, wind, eyes
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 (beak, wind, that, eyes), 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 Stork | det |
| 2 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beak | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Stork | case |
| 4 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pinched | nsubj |
| 5 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pinched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whistled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whistled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistled | nsubj |
| 11 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pinched | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 agreeable | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agreeable | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 agreeable | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 agreeable | advmod |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 17 agreeable | advmod |
| 17 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pinched | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 going | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pinched | advcl |
| 23 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 upward | punct |
| 25 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 Egypt | case |
| 27 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 knew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 knew | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pinched | parataxis |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knew | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 gleamed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 why | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 why | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 why | cop |
| 37 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 gleamed | advmod |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gleamed | nsubj |
| 40 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pinched | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 seemed | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 seemed | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 spark | det |
| 44 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 seemed | nsubj |
| 45 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gleamed | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 fly | mark |
| 47 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 seemed | xcomp |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fly | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | the Stork's beak | naturalist | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the wind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | wind | agreeable, exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | beak | Egypt | upward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards egypt=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | know | past | beak | wind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | gleam | past | beak's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | seem | past | a spark | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | fly out | to-infinitive | a spark not said here | eyes = eye | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
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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