Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 37

Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to rise in the air; they can only fly terror-stricken along the ground, or run round and round in narrow circles.

Who acts: ostrich, ostriches, angel · What happens: not be, rise, fly, stricken, run, race · To what, where: air, terror, narrow circles

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 (ostrich, ostriches, angel), 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	Since	since	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 able	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ostrich	det
5	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 able	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 race	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 race	nmod:poss
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ostrich	conj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 able	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 able	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rise	mark
14	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 air	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rise	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fly	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fly	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fly	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 fly	advmod
22	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	parataxis
23	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fly	obj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 terror	punct
25	stricken	stricken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 terror	acl
26	along	along	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stricken	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 run	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 run	cc
31	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fly	conj
32	round	round	ADV	_	31 run	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 round	cc
34	round	round	ADV	_	32 round	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 circles	case
36	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 circles	amod
37	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 run	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present · perfect	the ostrich and angel's race			time	able property	tree rules
2	rise	to-infinitive	the ostrich and angel's race not said here		the air			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
3	fly	can	ostriches = ostrich	terror				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location terror=Theme
4	stricken	participle		terror not said here			along the ground	tree rules
5	run	present	ostriches = ostrich not said here		narrow circles		round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
6	race		angel					nom race «event intransitive»: 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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