Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 152
"Cold winter is coming," said the swallow, "and I am going to fly away into warmer countries.
Who acts: Cold winter, swallow · What happens: come, say, go, fly away · To what, where: warmer countries · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cold winter, swallow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 2 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winter | amod |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swallow | det |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallow | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fly | mark |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 fly | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 countries | case |
| 21 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 countries | amod |
| 22 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fly | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Cold winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the swallow = swallow | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fly away in a quote | to-infinitive | the swallow = swallow not said here | into warmer countries result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into country=Result |
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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