Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 39
Feathers of plucked birds, as they call the snow, flew about in thick showers, and winter was coming.
Who acts: Feathers, winter · What happens: pluck, call, fly, come · To what, where: snow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feathers, winter), 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 | Feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 birds | case |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Feathers | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 call | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snow | det |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 showers | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 showers | case |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 showers | amod |
| 16 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coming | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 coming | cc |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flew | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present | Feathers of plucked birds | the snow | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snow=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | about thick showers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about shower=Location | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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