Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 4
We flew on the wings of steam over the sea and across the land.
Who acts: We · What happens: fly · To what, where: wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 wings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wings | det |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steam | case |
| 7 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wings | nmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 land | cc |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sea | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | We | the wings of steam | over the sea and the land | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wing=Location |
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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