Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 99

There the male and the female birds fly in separate flocks, which, to speak candidly, I consider very unbecoming."

Who acts: male, separate flocks, I · What happens: fly, speak, consider · To what, where: separate flocks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (male, separate flocks, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 fly	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 male	det
3	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 birds	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
6	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 male	conj
8	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 flocks	case
10	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flocks	amod
11	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fly	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 speak	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 flocks	acl:relcl
17	candidly	candidly	ADV	_	16 speak	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 consider	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 consider	nsubj
20	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 unbecoming	advmod
22	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 consider	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the male and the female birds	separate flocks; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	separate flocks		candidly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	consider	present	I		unbecoming property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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