Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 95
The other fowls took the same view of it, and they all turned away together.
Who acts: other fowls, refreshments · What happens: take, turn away, view · To what, where: same view, view
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 (other fowls, refreshments), 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 | 3 fowls | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fowls | amod |
| 3 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 view | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 view | amod |
| 7 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 view | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the other fowls | the same view of view | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past | refreshments = refreshment | away, together property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | view | view | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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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