Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 74
"Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. "
Who acts: Pop, two wild geese · What happens: sound, fall, ting · To what, where: air, rushes, water
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 (Pop, two wild geese), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pop | punct |
| 2 | Pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pop | punct |
| 4 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pop | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pop | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pop | punct |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 geese | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 geese | nummod |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 geese | amod |
| 16 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sounded | conj |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 rushes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rushes | det |
| 21 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tinged | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tinged | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tinged | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tinged | aux:pass |
| 27 | tinged | ting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sounded | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 blood | case |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tinged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 tinged | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 tinged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | Pop and pop | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the two wild geese | the rushes | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among rush=Location | |||
| 3 | ting | past · passive | the water | with blood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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