Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 31

She looked down, and saw two large ostriches running round quickly in narrow circles; she had never seen these creatures before,--great, coarse, clumsy-looking birds with curious wings that looked as if they had been clipped, and the birds themselves had the appearance of having been roughly used.

Who acts: daring, two large ostriches, curious wings, birds · What happens: look down, see, run, not see, look, clip · To what, where: two large ostriches, narrow circles, creatures, birds, wings, appearance

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 (daring, two large ostriches, curious wings, birds), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ostriches	nummod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ostriches	amod
9	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
10	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ostriches	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 running	advmod
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 running	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 circles	case
14	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 circles	amod
15	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 running	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 seen	advmod
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 looked	parataxis
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 creatures	det
22	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seen	obj
23	before	before	ADV	_	20 seen	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 great	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 great	punct
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seen	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 coarse	punct
28	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 great	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looking	punct
30	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 looking	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 clumsy	punct
32	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 great	advcl
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looking	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 wings	case
35	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wings	amod
36	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looking	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wings	acl:relcl
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 clipped	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 clipped	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 clipped	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 clipped	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 clipped	aux:pass
44	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 looked	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 had	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 birds	det
48	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 had	nsubj
49	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 birds	nmod
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 appearance	det
52	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	57 used	mark
54	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 used	aux
55	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 used	aux:pass
56	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	57 used	advmod
57	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 appearance	acl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look down	past	daring				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	daring not said here	two large ostriches			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ostrich=Stimulus
3	run	gerund	two large ostriches not said here		narrow circles	quickly, round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
4	not see	past · perfect	daring	this creatures		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
5	look	gerund	daring not said here	birds		with curious wings	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Attribute
6	look	past	curious wings				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	clip	past · perfect · passive		wings = wing			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	have	past	the birds wings	the appearance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
9	use	gerund · perfect · passive		the appearance not said here		roughly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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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