Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 22

Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry.

Who acts: clouds, sister · What happens: fly, wing, have, carry · To what, where: air, sister

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, sister), 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	Onward	onward	ADV	_	4 day	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl:unmarked
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 arrow	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 arrow	det
12	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arrow	amod
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slowly	punct
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 slowly	cc
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 slowly	advmod
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 usual	case
19	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slowly	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 had	case
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 carry	mark
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	clouds = cloud		the air	day	like a winged arrow; slowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
2	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	clouds = cloud	clouds's sister				tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive	clouds's sister not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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