Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 21
The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field and wood--he was the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies.
Who acts: singing bird, bird, Popular Song · What happens: soar away, be, not die · To what, where: mountain, Bird
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 (singing bird, bird, Popular Song), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 singing | punct |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soared | nsubj |
| 5 | soared | soar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 soared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountain | punct |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 valley | cc |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mountain | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 field | punct |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 field | case |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soared | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wood | cc |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 field | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bird | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Bird | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Bird | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bird | det |
| 21 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 field | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Song | case |
| 23 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Song | amod |
| 24 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bird | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dies | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 dies | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 dies | advmod |
| 28 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Song | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar away | participle | the singing bird | mountain and valley | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | past | bird | the Bird | of Popular Song | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not die | present | Popular Song | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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