Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 13

Then, with a strange cry, they flew through the windows of the palace, over the park, to the forest beyond.

Who acts: birds · What happens: fly · To what, where: windows

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 flew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 cry	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cry	amod
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 windows	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 windows	det
12	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flew	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 windows	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 park	punct
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 park	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 park	det
19	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forest	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 park	conj
24	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	23 forest	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	birds = bird			the windows of the palace	then	with a strange cry	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=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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