Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 110
“Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,” added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage.
Who acts: Clerk, lady, large green parrot · What happens: amuse, add, look, swing, forward, wire · To what, where: good Polly, Clerk, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Clerk, lady, large green parrot), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 amuse | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 amuse | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 amuse | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 amuse | aux |
| 5 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 added | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Polly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Polly | amod |
| 8 | Polly | polly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amuse | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 amuse | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 amuse | punct |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 added | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 smile | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 smile | det |
| 18 | benignant | benignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 smile | amod |
| 19 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 parrot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 parrot | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 parrot | amod |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 parrot | amod |
| 24 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 swung | nsubj |
| 26 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 swung | obj |
| 28 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 26 swung | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forwards | cc |
| 30 | forwards | forward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 swung | conj |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 comfortably | advmod |
| 32 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 30 forwards | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 ring | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ring | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forwards | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 cage | punct |
| 37 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 43 cage | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cage | det |
| 39 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cage | amod |
| 40 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wired | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 brass | punct |
| 42 | wired | wire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 cage | amod |
| 43 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forwards | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse in a quote | future | Clerk | my good Polly | perhaps property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus polly=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the lady not said here | with a benignant smile; at a large green parrot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at parrot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swing | past | a large green parrot | Clerk | backwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 5 | forward | present | a large green parrot not said here | Clerk's ring | inside a magnificent wired cage; comfortably property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | wire | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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