Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 48

Then they flew away through the bad weather, and the traveller followed them, and broke his three rods across their shoulders.

Who acts: grasshoppers, traveller · What happens: fly away, follow, break · To what, where: bad weather, grasshoppers, three rods, shoulders

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grasshoppers, traveller), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 weather	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weather	amod
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 traveller	det
12	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	nsubj
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 broke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 broke	cc
17	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 rods	nmod:poss
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 rods	nummod
20	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 broke	obj
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 shoulders	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoulders	nmod:poss
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 broke	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	grasshoppers = grasshopper		the bad weather	then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through weather=Location
2	follow	past	the traveller	grasshoppers = grasshopper				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	break	past	grasshoppers = grasshopper not said here	traveller's three rods	grasshoppers's shoulders			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rod=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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