Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 53

And with that he gave a hop, and flapped his wings twice, proudly; then he stretched his neck and flew, or rather soared away, without moving his outspread wings.

Who acts: good · What happens: give, flap, stretch, fly, soar away, move · To what, where: hop, wings, neck, outspread wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
2	with	with	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hop	det
7	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flapped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flapped	cc
10	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flapped	obj
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 flapped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proudly	punct
15	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	10 flapped	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stretched	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stretched	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stretched	nsubj
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretched	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stretched	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 soared	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 soared	cc
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	27 soared	advmod
27	soared	soar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 flew	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 soared	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 moving	punct
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 moving	mark
31	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 soared	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wings	nmod:poss
33	outspread	outspread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wings	amod
34	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 moving	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	good	a hop			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme
2	flap	past	good not said here	good's wings		proudly, twice property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	stretch	past	good	good's neck	then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
4	fly	past	good not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	soar away	participle	good not said here			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	move	gerund	good not said here	good's outspread wings			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=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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