Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 26

Then a shot was fired; for an instant the bird fluttered its wide-spreading wings, and seemed as if it would fill up the whole of the chasm, and drag down the hunters in its fall.

Who acts: bird, shot · What happens: fire, flutter, spread, seem, fill up, drag down · To what, where: shot, spreading wings, whole, hunters, fall

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, shot), 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	5 fired	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shot	det
3	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fired	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fired	aux:pass
5	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fluttered	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 instant	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 instant	det
9	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fluttered	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fluttered	nsubj
12	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fired	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wings	nmod:poss
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spreading	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 wide	punct
16	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 wings	amod
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fluttered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fluttered	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 fill	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 fill	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fill	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fill	aux
25	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 fill	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 whole	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fill	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 chasm	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chasm	det
31	chasm	chasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whole	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drag	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drag	cc
34	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fluttered	advcl
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 drag	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hunters	det
37	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 drag	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 fall	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 fall	nmod:poss
40	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hunters	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past · passive		a shot		then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	flutter	past	the bird	bird's spreading wings			for a instant	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	spread	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	the bird not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	fill up a condition, not said to happen	would	shot	the whole				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
6	drag down	infinitive	the bird not said here	the hunters	bird's fall			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=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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