Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 3

The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from “my good Polly.”

Who acts: lady · What happens: say, put · To what, where: copying clerk, small cage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
2	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clerk	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 copying	punct
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 bird	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 or	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bird	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 field	punct
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clerk	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clerk	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux:pass
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 cage	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cage	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cage	amod
24	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 close	punct
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cage	amod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 Canary	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Canary	det
29	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Polly	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Polly	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 Polly	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	38 Polly	case
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 Polly	punct
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 Polly	nmod:poss
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Polly	amod
38	Polly	polly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the lady						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive		the copying clerk or the brown field bird		a small cage		from my good Polly	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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