Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 45

It was yet spring, some were sitting on their eggs, others had already hatched their young broods; but how they fluttered about and cried out when the axe sounded through the forest, blow upon blow!

Who acts: nest, some, others, axe · What happens: be, sit, hatch, flutter, cry out, sound · To what, where: spring, eggs, others, forest

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 (nest, some, others, axe), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spring	cop
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 spring	advmod
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sitting	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 spring	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eggs	nmod:poss
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hatched	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hatched	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hatched	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 hatched	advmod
16	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spring	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 broods	nmod:poss
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 broods	amod
19	broods	brood	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hatched	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fluttered	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 fluttered	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 fluttered	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fluttered	nsubj
24	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hatched	parataxis
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 fluttered	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fluttered	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 sounded	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 axe	det
31	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sounded	nsubj
32	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cried	advcl
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 forest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forest	det
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sounded	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 blow	punct
37	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 cried	conj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 blow	case
39	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blow	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	nest	spring		yet		tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	some	spring not said here	birds's eggs			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent spring=Theme on egg=Location
3	hatch	past · perfect · passive		others				tree rules
4	flutter	past	others = other				about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry out speech: express	past	others = other not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sound	past	the axe		the forest			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location
7	blow	infinitive	others = other not said here				upon blow	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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