Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 109
And then they flew across the Alps towards the blue Mediterranean.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: fly · To what, where: Alps
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 (mountains), 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 | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 Alps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Alps | det |
| 7 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 Mediterranean | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mediterranean | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mediterranean | amod |
| 11 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | mountains = mountain | the Alps | then | towards the blue Mediterranean | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mediterranean=Destination |
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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