Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 91

Our little bird flew away into the public roads, and found here and there, in the ruts of the sledges, a grain of corn, and at the halting places some crumbs.

Who acts: little bird · What happens: fly away, find · To what, where: crumbs, public roads, ruts

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bird	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 roads	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roads	det
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roads	amod
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 found	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 there	cc
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 here	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ruts	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 ruts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ruts	det
19	ruts	rut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 found	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sledges	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sledges	det
22	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ruts	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grain	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 grain	det
25	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ruts	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 corn	case
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grain	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crumbs	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 crumbs	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 places	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 places	det
32	halting	halting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 places	compound
33	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crumbs	obl
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 crumbs	det
35	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	Our little bird	some crumbs				into the public roads result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into road=Result
2	find	past	Our little bird not said here			the ruts of the sledges and a grain of corn; here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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