Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 94

And the swallows flew round him, as in the days of his childhood, singing "We and you--you and we."

Who acts: swallows · What happens: fly, sing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallows	det
3	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 childhood	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 childhood	nmod:poss
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 singing	punct
16	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flew	advcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 you	punct
18	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 you	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 you	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 singing	ccomp
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 you	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 you	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 we	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 you	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the swallows				day	round bird	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory
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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