Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 112
Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with dignified condescension; while a pretty canary, as yellow as gold, that had lately been brought from his sunny fragrant home, began to sing aloud.
Who acts: Polly · What happens: not utter, swing, fro, dignify, bring, begin · To what, where: syllable, reply, pretty canary, sunny fragrant home
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 (Polly), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Polly | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Polly | Polly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 uttered | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 syllable | det |
| 6 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 reply | case |
| 8 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swung | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 swung | cc |
| 11 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 swung | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fro | cc |
| 14 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 swung | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 condescension | case |
| 16 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 condescension | amod |
| 17 | condescension | condescension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fro | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 canary | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 canary | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 canary | det |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 canary | amod |
| 22 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swung | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yellow | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 yellow | case |
| 25 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 canary | amod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yellow | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 brought | aux |
| 31 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 33 brought | advmod |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 brought | aux:pass |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 canary | acl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 home | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 home | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 home | amod |
| 37 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 home | amod |
| 38 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 began | punct |
| 40 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swung | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 sing | mark |
| 42 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 began | xcomp |
| 43 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 42 sing | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not utter speech: other | past | Polly Mr. | a syllable | reply | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent syllable=Topic | |||
| 2 | swing | past | a pretty canary | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | with dignified condescension | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dignify | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | a pretty canary | Clerk's sunny fragrant home | lately property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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