Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 4
The only human sounds that the Parrot could bawl out were, “Come, let us be men!”
Who acts: Parrot, men · What happens: bawl out, come, let, be · To what, where: only human sounds, 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 (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 | 4 sounds | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | amod |
| 3 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | amod |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bawl | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Parrot | det |
| 7 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bawl | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bawl | aux |
| 9 | bawl | bawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bawl | compound:prt |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Come | aux |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 14 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bawl | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 bawl | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 be | nsubj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 bawl | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bawl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl out speech: other | could | the Parrot | the only human sounds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the Parrot not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Parrot not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | 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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