Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 69
"We three flew away together through the air," said they: "a hunter caught sight of us, and shot at us with an arrow.
Who acts: We, air, hunter · What happens: fly away, say, catch, sight · To what, where: air · 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 (We, air, hunter), 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 flew | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 We | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 sight | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sight | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hunter | det |
| 17 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sight | amod |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sight | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shot | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shot | cc |
| 24 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 shot | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 arrow | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 arrow | det |
| 29 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away in a quote | past | We | the air | away, together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | air | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | sight in a quote | a hunter | of us; with a arrow | tree rules |
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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