Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 10
The wind whistled, therefore they did not understand that the nightingale sung, 'Fare away over the sea!
Who acts: wind, mothers, nightingale · What happens: whistle, not understand, sing · To what, where: Fare, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, mothers, nightingale), 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 | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whistled | nsubj |
| 3 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 understand | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 understand | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 understand | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 understand | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 understand | advmod |
| 9 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whistled | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sung | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nightingale | det |
| 12 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sung | nsubj |
| 13 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 understand | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fare | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fare | punct |
| 16 | Fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sung | obl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 sung | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sung | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | the wind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | mothers = mother | therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | participle | the nightingale | Fare | the sea | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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