Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 38

The frightened Canary fluttered about in his cage; the Parrot flapped his wings, and cried, “Come, let us be men!”

Who acts: frightened Canary, Parrot, men · What happens: flutter, flap, cry, come, let, be · To what, where: wings, us · 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 (frightened Canary, Parrot, men), 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	3 Canary	det
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Canary	amod
3	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fluttered	nsubj
4	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 cage	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cage	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cage	nmod:poss
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fluttered	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 flapped	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Parrot	det
11	Parrot	Parrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 flapped	nsubj
12	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fluttered	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flapped	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cried	cc
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flapped	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Come	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Come	punct
20	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Come	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 be	nsubj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 Come	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 flapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	the frightened Canary		about Canary's cage	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cage=Location
2	flap	past	the Parrot	Canary's wings		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	the Parrot not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
6	be in a quote	infinitive	men			vn exist-47.1 «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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