Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 3
The hen was frightened, and screamed, and spread out her wings over the little brood.
What happens: frighten, scream, spread out · To what, where: hen, wings, little brood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 screamed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 screamed | cc |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 screamed | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 spread | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 brood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brood | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brood | amod |
| 17 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the hen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | spread out | past | girl's wings | the little brood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme over brood=Destination |
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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