Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 17

Then the old bard struck the strings of his harp, and sang of the youthful courage of the hero, of the strength of the man, and of the greatness of his good deeds.

Who acts: old bard · What happens: strike, sing · To what, where: strings

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 (old bard), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 struck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bard	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bard	amod
4	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	nsubj
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strings	det
7	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 struck	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 harp	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 harp	nmod:poss
10	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strings	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sang	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sang	cc
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 struck	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 courage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 courage	det
16	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 courage	amod
17	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sang	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hero	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hero	det
20	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 courage	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strength	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 strength	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strength	det
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sang	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strength	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 greatness	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 greatness	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 greatness	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 greatness	det
32	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 deeds	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 deeds	nmod:poss
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 deeds	amod
36	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 greatness	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the old bard	the strings of bard's harp			then	of the greatness of bard's good deeds	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	the old bard not said here					of the youthful courage of the hero	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: «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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