Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 35
Then they flapped their large wings, and the crowd drew on one side in alarm.
Who acts: pieces, crowd · What happens: flap, draw · To what, where: large wings, one side
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, crowd), 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 | 3 flapped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flapped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drew | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crowd | det |
| 10 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 side | nummod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 alarm | case |
| 16 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | pieces = piece | pieces's large wings | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 2 | draw | past | the crowd | one side | in alarm | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
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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