Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 115
They are the birds from Egypt, who carried us through the air.
Who acts: people, birds · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: birds, Egypt, us, air
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 (people, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 birds | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Egypt | case |
| 6 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | parataxis |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | people | the birds | Egypt | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the birds | us | the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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