Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 102
"He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds."
Who acts: angel · What happens: fly, cry, peep out · To what, where: mantle, another, lovely little cherubs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mantle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mantle | det |
| 6 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mantle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cherubs | cc |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cherubs | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cherubs | amod |
| 18 | cherubs | cherub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | conj |
| 19 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cherubs | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 peeped | compound:prt |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 folds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 folds | det |
| 23 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 peeped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cherubs | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | past | angel | a mantle of fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in mantle=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | angel not said here | another | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic | ||||
| 3 | peep out in a quote | participle | lovely little cherubs not said here | from the folds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from fold=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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