Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 94
The hounds were running off, flocks of wild fowl flew screaming over the barrows, while the bramble bushes twined round the old stones.
Who acts: hounds, flocks · What happens: run off, fly, scream, twine · To what, where: bramble bushes, barrows, old stones
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, flocks), 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 hounds | det |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 running | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 flew | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 running | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flocks | punct |
| 7 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fowl | case |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fowl | amod |
| 10 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flocks | nmod |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 flew | xcomp |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 barrows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 barrows | det |
| 15 | barrows | barrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 screaming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bushes | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 bushes | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 19 | bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | compound |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flew | obl |
| 21 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bushes | acl |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stones | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stones | amod |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 twined | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past · progressive | the hounds | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | flocks of wild fowl | the bramble bushes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | flocks of wild fowl not said here | the barrows | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over barrow=Location | ||||
| 4 | twine | participle | the bramble bushes not said here | the old stones | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round stone=Destination |
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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