Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 22

We hear his song--we hear it now in the room while the white bees are swarming without, and the storm clutches the windows.

Who acts: We, white bees, storm, bird · What happens: hear, swarm, clutch, sing · To what, where: song, valley, room, windows

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 (We, white bees, storm, bird), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 song	nmod:poss
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 hear	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 swarming	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bees	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bees	amod
16	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swarming	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 swarming	aux
18	swarming	swarm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hear	advcl
19	without	without	ADP	_	18 swarming	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 clutches	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clutches	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 storm	det
23	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clutches	nsubj
24	clutches	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 clutches	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	present	We	bird's song			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
2	hear	present	we	valley	the room	now	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	swarm	present · progressive	the white bees				vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	clutch	present	the storm	the windows			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
5	sing		bird				nom song «communication 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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