Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 114
See, the storks are flocking together, and following the plough at a short distance.
Who acts: you, storks · What happens: see, flock together, follow · To what, where: plough
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, storks), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flocking | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storks | det |
| 4 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flocking | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flocking | aux |
| 6 | flocking | flock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 See | advcl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 flocking | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 following | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 following | cc |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 flocking | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plough | det |
| 12 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 following | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 following | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | flock together | present · progressive | the storks | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the storks not said here | the plough | at a short distance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plough=Theme at distance=Trajectory |
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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