Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 7

The birds have only two wings, and are obliged to carry them on their backs.

Who acts: birds · What happens: have, oblige, carry · To what, where: two wings, wings, backs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wings	nummod
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 obliged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 obliged	cc
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 obliged	aux:pass
10	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 carry	mark
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 obliged	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carry	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 backs	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 backs	nmod:poss
16	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carry	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	the birds	two wings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	oblige	present · passive	the birds not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
3	carry	to-infinitive	the birds not said here	wings = wing	wings's backs	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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