Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 21

So he cut off the wings of the dead swan with one blow, and carried them away with him.

Who acts: bird · What happens: cut off, carry away · To what, where: wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 cut	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 swan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swan	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swan	amod
10	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 blow	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 blow	nummod
13	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 carried	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	bird	the wings of the dead swan				with one blow	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wing=Eventuality
2	carry away	past	bird not said here	wings = wing				with bird; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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