Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 38
Then I loosened the band, and let the bird fly away to its home--to a father.
Who acts: I, bird · What happens: loosen, let, fly · To what, where: band, bird
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, bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 loosened | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 loosened | nsubj |
| 3 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loosened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 loosened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | I | the band | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent band=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | I not said here | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | infinitive | the bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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