Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 75
Pop, pop," echoed far and wide in the distance, and whole flocks of wild geese rose up from the rushes.
Who acts: Pop, whole flocks · What happens: echo, rose up · To what, where: rushes
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, whole flocks), 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 | Pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 echoed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pop | punct |
| 3 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pop | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 echoed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 echoed | punct |
| 6 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 echoed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wide | cc |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 far | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 echoed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rose | cc |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flocks | amod |
| 16 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 geese | case |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 geese | amod |
| 19 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flocks | nmod |
| 20 | rose | rose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 echoed | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 rose | compound:prt |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 rushes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rushes | det |
| 24 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rose | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | echo in a quote | past | Pop and pop | in the distance; far property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location | ||||
| 2 | rose up in a quote | present | whole flocks of wild geese | the rushes | 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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