Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 24

He has stories in words and in tones; he has proverbs and snatches of proverbs; songs which, like Runes laid under a dead man's tongue, force him to speak; and thus Popular Song tells of the land of his birth.

Who acts: bird, songs, Popular Song · What happens: have, lay, force, speak, tell, snatch · To what, where: stories, words, proverbs, Runes, tongue, bird · 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 (bird, songs, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stories	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tones	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 tones	case
8	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
12	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 has	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snatches	cc
14	snatches	snatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 proverbs	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 proverbs	case
16	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snatches	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 songs	punct
18	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 force	nsubj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 Runes	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Runes	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 Runes	case
22	Runes	rune	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 songs	conj
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Runes	acl
24	under	under	ADP	_	29 tongue	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tongue	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 man	case
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 force	punct
31	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 force	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 speak	mark
34	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 force	xcomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 tells	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tells	cc
37	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 Popular	advmod
38	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Song	amod
39	Song	Song	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 tells	nsubj
40	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 land	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 land	det
43	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tells	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 birth	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 birth	nmod:poss
46	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 land	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	bird	stories	words and tones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	have	present	bird	proverbs and snatches of proverbs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proverb=Patient
3	lay	participle		Runes not said here	a dead man's tongue		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tongue=Destination
4	force	infinitive	songs and Runes	bird			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	bird not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	present	Popular Song			of the land of bird's birth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	snatch			proverbs			nom snatch «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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