Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 183
"Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart as he left the warm countries to fly back into Denmark.
Who acts: swallow, Maia · What happens: say, leave, fly back · To what, where: warm countries, Denmark · 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 (swallow, Maia), 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 | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 4 farewell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swallow | det |
| 9 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallow | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 countries | det |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 countries | amod |
| 20 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fly | mark |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | advcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 fly | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Denmark | case |
| 25 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the swallow and a heavy heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | Maia | the warm countries | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly back | to-infinitive | Maia not said here | into Denmark result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into denmark=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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