Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 115
They give themselves great airs, especially the ibis.
Who acts: cranes · What happens: give · To what, where: cranes
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 (cranes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 give | obj |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 airs | amod |
| 5 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ibis | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 ibis | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ibis | det |
| 9 | ibis | ibis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 airs | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | cranes = crane | cranes = crane | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient air=Theme |
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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