Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 20
Higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one of his numberless angels against the ship.
Who acts: God · What happens: rise up, send · To what, where: eagles, air, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | Higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 higher | cc |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Higher | conj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagles | det |
| 6 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sent | advmod |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 angels | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 angels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | numberless | numberless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 angels | amod |
| 19 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 angels | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the eagles | the air | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | God | one of God's numberless angels against the ship | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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