Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 177
Their glances fell upon a stork's nest, which was built upon an old tumbledown hut.
Who acts: glances, ladies · What happens: fall, build, glance · To what, where: nest
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 (glances, ladies), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 glances | nmod:poss |
| 2 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stork | det |
| 6 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 stork | case |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 built | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 built | aux:pass |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nest | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 16 | tumbledown | tumbledown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hut | compound |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | ladies's glances | a stork's nest | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon nest=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | a stork's nest | upon a old tumbledown hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | glance | ladies = lady | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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