Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 64
Then stork-papa flapped his wings in first-rate style, and he and the swans flew away to the Viking's castle.
Who acts: stork papa, papa · What happens: flap, fly away · To what, where: 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 (stork papa, papa), 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 | 5 flapped | advmod |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 papa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
| 4 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flapped | nsubj |
| 5 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flapped | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 style | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 style | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
| 11 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 style | compound |
| 12 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flapped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swans | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swans | det |
| 18 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 he | conj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flapped | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Viking | det |
| 23 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Viking | case |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | stork papa | papa's wings | then | in first rate style | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Patient in style=Topic | ||
| 2 | fly away | past | papa | to the Viking's castle result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result |
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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