Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 112
I flew with my brothers and sisters over beautiful flowers, and across the clear, bright sea, which reflected the waving foliage in its glittering depths; and I have seen many gay parrots, who could relate long and delightful stories.
Who acts: I, clear bright sea, many gay parrots · What happens: fly, reflect, wave, glitter, see, relate · To what, where: beautiful flowers, waving foliage, glittering depths, many gay parrots, long stories
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clear bright sea, many gay parrots), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sisters | cc |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brothers | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sea | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sea | cc |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clear | punct |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reflected | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 reflected | nsubj |
| 21 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sea | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foliage | det |
| 23 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 foliage | amod |
| 24 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reflected | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 depths | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 depths | nmod:poss |
| 27 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 depths | amod |
| 28 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 foliage | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seen | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 flew | conj |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parrots | amod |
| 35 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parrots | amod |
| 36 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 seen | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 relate | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 relate | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 relate | aux |
| 40 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 parrots | acl:relcl |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 stories | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 delightful | cc |
| 43 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 long | conj |
| 44 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 relate | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | I | beautiful flowers | with my brothers and sisters | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over flower=Location | |||
| 2 | reflect | past | the clear bright sea | the waving foliage | foliage's glittering depths | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | see | present · perfect | I | many gay parrots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | relate | could | many gay parrots | long stories | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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