Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 50

The crows flew past him by hundreds across the old trees, and screamed, "Krah! da!--Krah! da!"

Who acts: crows · What happens: fly, scream · To what, where: old trees, Krah da

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crows	det
2	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 hundreds	case
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 screamed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 screamed	cc
14	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 da	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Krah	punct
17	Krah	Krah	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 da	compound
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Krah	punct
19	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screamed	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 screamed	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Krah	punct
22	Krah	Krah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 da	compound
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Krah	punct
24	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	parataxis
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 da	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 da	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the crows			the old trees		past man; by hundreds	tree rules
2	scream speech: express	past	the crows not said here	Krah da					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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