Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 96
She was roused from deep thought by a rustling of wings and snapping of beaks; all the storks arose, and started on their journey towards the south.
Who acts: rustling, storks, wings · What happens: rouse, snap, arise, start, rustle, journey · To what, where: wife, deep thought, journey, 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 (rustling, storks, wings), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | aux:pass |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | amod |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 rustling | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rustling | det |
| 9 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wings | case |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rustling | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snapping | cc |
| 13 | snapping | snap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rustling | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beaks | case |
| 15 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snapping | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 arose | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 storks | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storks | det |
| 19 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arose | nsubj |
| 20 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 started | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 started | cc |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arose | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 journey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 started | obl |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 south | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 south | det |
| 29 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 started | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · passive | a rustling of wings | wife | deep thought | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | snap | gerund | a rustling of wings not said here | of beaks | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of beak=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | all storks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | past | all storks not said here | wings's journey | towards the south | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | rustle | wings | nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | journey | wings = wing | nom journey «act 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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