Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 192
The fish swam past me as rapidly as the birds do here in the air.
Who acts: fish, birds · What happens: swim, do · To what, where: me, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, birds), 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 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 me | advmod |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 rapidly | advmod |
| 7 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | advcl |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the fish | me | rapidly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present | the birds | the air; here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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