Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 100
"What are those swans flapping their wings for?"
Who acts: swans · What happens: flap · To what, where: wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swans), 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 | _ | 6 flapping | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 flapping | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flapping | aux |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 swans | det |
| 5 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flapping | nsubj |
| 6 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flapping | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 flapping | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 flapping | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flapping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap in a quote | present · progressive | that swans | flocks's wings | 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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