Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 75
Before them flew the winged vampires, and the dead warriors closed up the train.
Who acts: gods · What happens: fly, wing, close up · To what, where: winged vampires, dead warriors
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 (gods), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 flew | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vampires | det |
| 5 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 vampires | amod |
| 6 | vampires | vampire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 closed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 closed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 warriors | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warriors | amod |
| 11 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 closed | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 train | det |
| 15 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | gods = god | the winged vampires | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vampire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | close up | participle · passive | the dead warriors | the train obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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