Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 16

And he spoke of his works, and of his warlike deeds, which his contemporaries had known, but which had not been sung, because there was no singer among his companions.

Who acts: Song, singer · What happens: speak, know, not sing, be, work · To what, where: warlike deeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Song, singer), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 spoke	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 works	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 works	nmod:poss
6	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deeds	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 deeds	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 deeds	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deeds	nmod:poss
11	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deeds	amod
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 known	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 known	nsubj:pass
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 contemporaries	nmod:poss
16	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 known	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 deeds	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sung	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sung	cc
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sung	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sung	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sung	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 sung	aux:pass
25	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spoke	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sung	parataxis
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 singer	det
31	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
32	among	among	ADP	_	34 companions	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 companions	nmod:poss
34	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 singer	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Song			of Song's works; of Song's warlike deeds	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	past · perfect · passive		Song's warlike deeds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	not sing speech: express	past · perfect · passive					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	be	past	no singer among Song's companions		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	work		Song				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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