Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 162
The moment they espied the stranger, they rushed to meet him with outstretched wings.
Who acts: moment, swans · What happens: espy, rush, meet, outstretch · To what, where: stranger, better
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 (moment, swans), 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 | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 espied | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 espied | nsubj |
| 4 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stranger | det |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 espied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 espied | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushed | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wings | case |
| 14 | outstretched | outstretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wings | amod |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meet | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 espied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | espy | past | the moment | the stranger | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | swans = swan | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | swans = swan not said here | better = good | with outstretched wings | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with wing=Instrument | |||
| 4 | outstretch | participle | tree rules |
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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