Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 33
When I recovered myself, I found in my bosom a little bird, flapping its wings, twittering and fluttering.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: recover, find, flap, twitter, flutter, bosom · To what, where: myself, bosom, 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 (I, my), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 recovered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recovered | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bosom | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flapping | punct |
| 15 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flapping | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 twittering | punct |
| 19 | twittering | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 flapping | conj | |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fluttering | cc |
| 21 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 twittering | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | I | myself | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I | my bosom | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flap | gerund | I not said here | bird's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | gerund | I not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | flutter | gerund | I not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bosom | my | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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