Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 123
Then she saw the storks fly away every one, and she stretched out her hands towards them.
Who acts: queen, storks · What happens: see, fly away, stretch out · To what, where: one, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stretched | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stretched | nsubj |
| 13 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stretched | compound:prt |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stretched | obj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stretched | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | queen | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fly away | present | the storks | every one | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | stretch out | past | queen | queen's hands | towards mists = mist | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards they=Recipient |
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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