Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 44
Then I rested by Borreby, near the glorious wood, where the heron made his nest, the haunt of the wood-pigeons, the blue-birds, and the black stork.
Who acts: I, heron · What happens: rest, make · To what, where: black stork, 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 (I, heron), 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 rested | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Borreby | case |
| 5 | Borreby | Borreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wood | punct |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 made | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heron | det |
| 14 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wood | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 haunt | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 haunt | det |
| 20 | haunt | haunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nest | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pigeons | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pigeons | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pigeons | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 wood | punct |
| 25 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 haunt | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 birds | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 birds | det |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 birds | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 blue | punct |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pigeons | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stork | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stork | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stork | det |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stork | amod |
| 35 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | I | the black stork | then | by Borreby | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by borreby=Location | ||
| 2 | make | past | the heron | heron's nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
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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