Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 8
They cried out loudly, and came fluttering down from their perches, and ran about in dismay, and the little girl ran after them.
Who acts: houses, little girl · What happens: cry out, come, flutter down, run about, run · To what, where: perches, dismay
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: who acts (houses, little girl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cried | compound:prt |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 8 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 came | xcomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 fluttering | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 perches | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 perches | nmod:poss |
| 12 | perches | perch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fluttering | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 ran | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dismay | case |
| 18 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ran | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | houses = house | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | houses = house not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flutter down | gerund | houses = house not said here | houses's perches | down property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | run about | past | houses = house not said here | dismay | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dismay=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | run | past | the little girl | after houses = house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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