Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 158

And high in the air flew the first stork, and the second followed; a lovely child sat on the back of each, and they sank down on the open field, kissed the earth, and kissed the quiet old man; and, as the mist from the mountain top, he vanished away and disappeared.

Who acts: lovely child, birds, snow · What happens: fly, follow, sit, sink down, kiss, vanish away · To what, where: first stork, second, back, open field, earth, quiet old man

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 (lovely child, birds, snow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flew	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 high	obl
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stork	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 stork	amod
9	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 followed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 second	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 followed	obl:unmarked
14	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flew	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 back	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 back	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sank	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sank	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sank	nsubj
28	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 sank	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 field	amod
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sank	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 kissed	punct
35	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 earth	det
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kissed	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kissed	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kissed	cc
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
42	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 vanished	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 vanished	cc
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 and	punct
48	as	as	ADP	_	50 mist	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mist	det
50	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 vanished	obl
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 top	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 top	det
53	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 top	compound
54	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 mist	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 mist	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 vanished	nsubj
57	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
58	away	away	ADV	_	57 vanished	advmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 disappeared	cc
60	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 vanished	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past		the first stork			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stork=Theme
2	follow	participle		the second			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	a lovely child		the back of each		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
4	sink down	past	birds = bird		the open field	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	kiss	past	a lovely child not said here	the earth			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Co-Agent
6	kiss	past	a lovely child not said here	the quiet old man			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
7	vanish away	past	snow			as the mist from the mountain top; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	disappear	past	snow not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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