Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 154
Then the young bird felt that his wings were strong, as he flapped them against his sides, and rose high into the air.
Who acts: young bird, wings, door · What happens: feel, be, flap, rise · To what, where: birds, air
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 (young bird, wings, door), 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 | 5 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 strong | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strong | cop |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flapped | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 flapped | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flapped | nsubj |
| 14 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flapped | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 sides | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sides | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rose | cc |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 22 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 rose | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the young bird | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | door's wings | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flap | past | door | birds = bird | against door's sides | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | rise | past | the young bird not said here | the air | high property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location |
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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