Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 34
The bird flew away from my bosom, upwards towards the dark, heavy canopy above me, but a long, green band kept it fastened to me.
Who acts: bird, long green band, my · What happens: fly away, keep, fasten, bosom · To what, where: bosom, me
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 (bird, long green band, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bosom | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 9 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dark | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bosom | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 canopy | punct |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 canopy | amod |
| 15 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dark | appos |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 canopy | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 band | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 band | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 band | amod |
| 24 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | nsubj |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fastened | nsubj |
| 27 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kept | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fastened | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the bird | my bosom | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bosom=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | keep | past | a long green band | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fasten | past | bird | me | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to i=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | 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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