The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 70
And when its song was finished it flapped its wings and flew on in front of them.
Who acts: song, midday · What happens: finish, flap, fly on, sing · To what, where: song, wings, front
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, midday), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flapped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 finished | advmod |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flapped | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flapped | nsubj |
| 8 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 flapped | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flapped | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 flew | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | midday's song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | flap | past | song | midday's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly on | past | song not said here | front of Hansel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | sing | midday | nom song «communication 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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/70/