Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 32
“Poor little Danish grey-bird,” said the Canary; “you have been caught too.
Who acts: Poor little Danish grey bird · What happens: say, catch · To what, where: you · 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 (Poor little Danish grey bird), 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 | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 4 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 5 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grey | punct |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Canary | det |
| 12 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 caught | aux:pass |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 caught | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Poor little Danish grey bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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