Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 23
The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet gentle songs of love, so many and so warm, of Northern fidelity and truth.
Who acts: bird, love · What happens: not sing, sing · To what, where: requiem, sweet gentle songs
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 (bird, love), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 sings | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 sings | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 requiem | det |
| 7 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sings | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heroes | case |
| 9 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 requiem | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sings | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sings | nsubj |
| 12 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sings | conj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 sweet | advmod |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 songs | amod |
| 15 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 songs | amod |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sings | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 songs | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 many | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sings | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 warm | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 warm | advmod |
| 24 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 many | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fidelity | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 fidelity | case |
| 27 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fidelity | amod |
| 28 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sings | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 truth | cc |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fidelity | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express | present | the bird | the requiem of heroes | alone property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location requiem=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | bird | sweet gentle songs of love | of Northern fidelity and truth; many obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing | love | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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