Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 54
He went on for some distance, and then he gave a great flap with his wings and flew on his course at a rapid rate, his head and neck bending proudly before him, while the sun's rays fell on his glossy plumage.
Who acts: good, neck, rays, sun · What happens: go on, give, fly, bend, fall, ray · To what, where: great flap, head, course, glossy plumage
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, neck, rays, sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 gave | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flap | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flap | amod |
| 14 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wings | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 course | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 course | nmod:poss |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 rate | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rate | det |
| 25 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rate | amod |
| 26 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 head | punct |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 neck | cc |
| 31 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 head | conj |
| 32 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 neck | acl |
| 33 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 32 bending | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bending | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fell | punct |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 fell | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sun | det |
| 39 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rays | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 sun | case |
| 41 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 fell | nsubj |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 plumage | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 45 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 plumage | amod |
| 46 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fell | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | good | for some distance | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | good | a great flap | then | with good's wings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Theme | ||
| 3 | fly | past | good not said here | good's head and neck | good's course | at a rapid rate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on course=Location | ||
| 4 | bend | gerund | neck not said here | before good | proudly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 5 | fall | past | the sun's rays | good's glossy plumage | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on plumage=Location | ||||
| 6 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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