Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 30
The swallows flew with him a little way, singing, "We and you--you and we."
Who acts: swallows · What happens: fly, sing · To what, where: little way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows), 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 swallows | det |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 singing | punct |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 13 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 you | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 singing | ccomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 we | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the swallows | a little way | with Rudy | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the swallows not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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