Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 75
Then the raven flew over her, screaming again as he flew.
Who acts: raven, latter · What happens: fly, scream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, latter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 raven | det |
| 3 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 screaming | punct |
| 8 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | advcl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 screaming | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 flew | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 screaming | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the raven | then | over journey | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | the raven not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | latter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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