Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 69

None noticed Helga but a flock of magpies, which flew chattering round the top of the tree on which she sat. These birds hopped close to her on the branches with bold curiosity.

Who acts: None, flock · What happens: notice, fly, chatter, hop · To what, where: Helga, tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, flock), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flock	det
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 magpies	case
8	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flock	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	conj
12	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 flew	xcomp
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chattering	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hopped	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hopped	nsubj
22	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	21 she	flat
23	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 she	conj
25	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tree	acl:relcl
26	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 hopped	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 close	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 branches	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 branches	det
31	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hopped	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 curiosity	case
33	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 curiosity	amod
34	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 branches	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	None	Helga			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer helga=Stimulus
2	fly	past	a flock of magpies				tree rules
3	chatter	gerund	a flock of magpies not said here			round the top of the tree	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hop	past	flock		the tree	on the branches with bold curiosity; close property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory

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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