Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 48
The hawk started up and flew away, for its nest was destroyed; the heron and all the birds of the forest became homeless, and flew about in fear and anger.
Who acts: hawk, heron · What happens: start up, fly away, destroy, become, fly · 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 (hawk, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flew | cc |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 destroyed | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 13 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flew | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heron | det |
| 16 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 birds | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 birds | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 birds | det |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heron | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 birds | nmod |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | parataxis |
| 25 | homeless | homeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flew | cc |
| 28 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 became | conj |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 fear | case |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 fear | case |
| 31 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flew | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 anger | cc |
| 33 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fear | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | the hawk | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past | the hawk not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past · passive | hawk's nest | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | become | past | the heron and all birds of the forest | homeless property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | the heron and all birds of the forest not said here | about fear and anger | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fear=Location |
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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