Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 67
The bullets and shells flew over the soldiers' heads, and into their heads--into their bodies and limbs; but still they pressed forward.
Who acts: bullets · What happens: fly, press forward · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullets), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bullets | det |
| 2 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shells | cc |
| 4 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bullets | conj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 soldiers | case |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heads | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heads | cc |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 bodies | punct |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 bodies | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heads | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 limbs | cc |
| 21 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bodies | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pressed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 pressed | cc |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 pressed | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pressed | nsubj |
| 26 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 27 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 26 pressed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the bullets and shells | the soldiers's heads | into bullets's heads and bullets's bodies and limbs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location | |||
| 2 | press forward | past | bullets = bullet | still | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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