Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 15
A swallow flew with the swiftness of an arrow into the arbour, turning in its flight, and twittered over the dead man's head.
Who acts: swallow · What happens: fly, turn, twitter · To what, where: arbour, flight, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swallow | det |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 swiftness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swiftness | det |
| 6 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arrow | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 arrow | det |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swiftness | nmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 arbour | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arbour | det |
| 12 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turning | punct |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flight | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 twittered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twittered | cc |
| 20 | twittered | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj | |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 man | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 twittered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a swallow | into the arbour result; with the swiftness of a arrow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into arbour=Result | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | a swallow not said here | swallow's flight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in flight=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | past | a swallow not said here | the dead man's head | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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