Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 158
Then the swallow rose in the air, and flew over forest and over sea, high above the highest mountains, covered with eternal snow.
Who acts: swallow · What happens: rise, fly, cover · To what, where: air, forest, highest mountains
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallow | det |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 forest | advmod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sea | cc |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forest | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flew | conj |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 20 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 mountains | amod |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 mountains | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 snow | case |
| 25 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 snow | amod |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the swallow | the air | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the swallow not said here | forest and sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | the highest mountains not said here | with eternal snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=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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