Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 82

Alas!” he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, “they are much better off than I!

Who acts: remembrance, chirping birds, birds · What happens: sigh, gaze, chirp, hop, be · To what, where: branch

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 (remembrance, chirping birds, birds), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 sighed	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sighed	nsubj
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 sorrowful	advmod
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sighed	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gazed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gazed	cc
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sighed	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 birds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
13	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gazed	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hopped	nsubj
16	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 birds	acl:relcl
17	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	16 hopped	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 branch	case
19	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hopped	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 branch	case
21	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hopped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 better	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 better	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 better	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 gazed	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 better	compound:prt
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 I	case
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 better	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sigh in a quote	past	remembrance		sorrowful property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gaze in a quote	past	remembrance not said here		at the chirping birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
3	chirp in a quote	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hop in a quote	past	the chirping birds	branch	to branch; contentedly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination
5	is	present	birds = bird		than I; good property	tree rules

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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