Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 101
He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on.
Who acts: tirade · What happens: give, walk on · To what, where: knock, noisy bird
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tirade), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 4 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knock | det |
| 7 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 beak | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knock | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 walked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | tirade | a knock | the noisy bird | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient knock=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk on | past | tirade not said here | 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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