Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 102
The swans fly in an oblique line; the cranes, in the form of a triangle; and the plovers, in a curved line like a snake."
Who acts: swans · What happens: fly, curve, form · To what, where: oblique line, triangle
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swans | det |
| 2 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 6 | oblique | oblique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cranes | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cranes | det |
| 10 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 form | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cranes | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 triangle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 triangle | det |
| 17 | triangle | triangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 plovers | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plovers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plovers | det |
| 21 | plovers | plover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 line | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 line | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 line | det |
| 25 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 line | amod |
| 26 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plovers | appos |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 snake | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 snake | det |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 line | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the swans | a oblique line | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location | ||||
| 2 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 3 | form | a triangle | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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