Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 29
It was the over-abundance of youthful spirits unfolding its wings for a daring flight.
Who acts: more, youthful spirits · What happens: be, unfold · To what, where: over-abundance, wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, youthful spirits), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 over-abundance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over-abundance | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 over-abundance | det |
| 4 | over-abundance | over-abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spirits | case |
| 6 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirits | amod |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 over-abundance | nmod |
| 8 | unfolding | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 spirits | acl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unfolding | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 flight | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flight | det |
| 13 | daring | daring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flight | compound |
| 14 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unfolding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 over-abundance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | more | the over-abundance | of youthful spirits | tree rules | |||
| 2 | unfold | gerund | youthful spirits not said here | more's wings | for a daring flight | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=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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