Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 163

Crows and magpies fluttered about them, and cried, as if in contempt, 'Caw, caw, turned out of our nest--caw, caw,' as they had done in the wood at Borreby, when the trees were felled.

Who acts: Crows, walls · What happens: flutter, cry, turn out, do, fell · To what, where: nest, wood, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crows, walls), 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	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fluttered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 magpies	cc
3	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crows	conj
4	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fluttered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fluttered	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 contempt	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 contempt	case
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 contempt	mark
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 contempt	case
14	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Caw	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Caw	punct
17	Caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contempt	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caw	punct
19	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Caw	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
21	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 nest	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 nest	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nest	nmod:poss
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 caw	punct
27	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nest	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 caw	punct
29	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nest	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 '	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 fluttered	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 done	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fluttered	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 wood	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wood	det
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 done	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 Borreby	case
40	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 done	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 felled	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 felled	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 felled	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 felled	aux:pass
46	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 done	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	Crows and magpies			about walls = wall	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about they=Location
2	cry speech: express	past				as contempt	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn out	past		our nest and caw and caw			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	walls = wall		the wood	at Borreby	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fell	past · passive		the trees			tree rules

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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