Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 131

One evening, just as the sun set amid radiant clouds, there came a large flock of beautiful birds out of the bushes.

Who acts: sun · What happens: set, come · To what, where: amid radiant clouds, large flock, bushes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	nsubj
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	amid	amid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clouds	amod
10	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clouds	amod
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 came	expl
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flock	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flock	amod
17	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 birds	case
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 birds	amod
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flock	nmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 bushes	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bushes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bushes	det
24	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	the sun	amid radiant clouds			evening		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cloud=Result
2	come	past	the sun not said here	a large flock of beautiful birds		the bushes; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flock=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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