Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 22

The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up.

Who acts: lark · What happens: rise up, carol, twitter, perch, pick, tear up · To what, where: field, morning lay, coffin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6982): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lark	det
2	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rose	compound:prt
5	carolling	carol	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rose	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carolling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 twittering	punct
10	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 carolling	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lay	nmod:poss
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	compound
13	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twittering	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 coffin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coffin	det
16	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twittering	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 perched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 perched	cc
19	presently	presently	ADV	_	20 perched	advmod
20	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 perched	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 picking	punct
24	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 perched	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 beak	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beak	nmod:poss
27	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picking	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 covering	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 covering	det
30	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covering	compound
31	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tear	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 tear	mark
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 as	fixed
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tear	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tear	aux
37	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 picking	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tear	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 tear	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the lark				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carol speech: other	gerund	the lark not said here		the field		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	twitter	gerund	the lark not said here	lark's morning lay	the coffin		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lay=Theme
4	perch	past	the lark not said here		coffin	presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
5	pick	gerund	the lark not said here			with lark's beak; at the straw covering	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at covering=Patient
6	tear up	would	lark	coffin			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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