Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 27
In vain they drove them away with a myrtle branch, the flies stung them notwithstanding.
Who acts: flies · What happens: drive, sting, notwithstand · To what, where: thousands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stung | advcl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 vain | acl:relcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 9 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 branch | compound |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stung | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flies | det |
| 13 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stung | nsubj |
| 14 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stung | obj |
| 16 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stung | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | flies = fly | thousands = thousand | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sting | past | the flies | thousands = thousand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | notwithstand | gerund | the flies not said here | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/27/