Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 78

"Ah!" he sighed mournfully, as he gazed at the birds singing merrily, or hopping from branch to branch, "they are much better off than I. Flying is a glorious power.

Who acts: strength, birds, I. Flying · What happens: sigh, gaze, sing, hop, be · To what, where: branch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (strength, birds, I. Flying), 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	_	6 sighed	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 sighed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sighed	nsubj
6	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	6 sighed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gazed	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 gazed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gazed	nsubj
11	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sighed	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 birds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gazed	obl
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 birds	acl
16	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	15 singing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hopping	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 hopping	cc
19	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 singing	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 branch	case
21	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hopping	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 branch	case
23	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hopping	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 better	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 better	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 better	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 better	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 better	advmod
29	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 gazed	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 better	compound:prt
31	than	than	ADP	_	37 power	case
32	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Flying	compound
33	Flying	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 power	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 power	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 power	det
36	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 power	amod
37	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 better	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	strength		mournfully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gaze	past	strength		at the birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the birds not said here		merrily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hop	gerund	the birds not said here	branch	to branch	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination
5	is in a quote	present	birds = bird		good property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	I. Flying		than a glorious power	tree rules

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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