Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 60

So at last he ran away, frightening the little birds in the hedge as he flew over the palings.

Who acts: cat · What happens: run away, fly · To what, where: last, palings

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 (cat), 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	_	8 frightening	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightening	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	acl:relcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
8	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 frightening	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hedge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hedge	det
14	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birds	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 flew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightening	advcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 palings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palings	det
20	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frightening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	cat	last not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme last=Trajectory
2	fly	past	cat			the palings			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over paling=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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