Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 11
Fly like great birds, who have no voice."
Who acts: you, great birds · What happens: fly, have · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great birds), 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 | Fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 birds | case |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fly | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fly | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | imperative | you not said here | like great birds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | great birds | no voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/11/