Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 29

As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twittering and song, the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies so long as the earth has a hill upon which his foot may rest.

Who acts: these, Popular Song, earth, foot, windows · What happens: tell, flutter, not die, have, rest · To what, where: tales, hill · 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 (these, Popular Song, earth, foot), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fluttered	advcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tales	nmod:poss
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 fluttered	expl
8	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fluttered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 twittering	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 twittering	case
13	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fluttered	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 song	cc
15	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twittering	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Bird	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bird	det
18	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twittering	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Song	case
20	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Song	amod
21	Song	Song	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Bird	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dies	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dies	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 dies	advmod
25	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Song	acl:relcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 dies	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 has	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 long	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hill	det
33	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 rest	obl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 foot	nmod:poss
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rest	nsubj
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 rest	aux
39	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hill	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	these	windows's tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	flutter	participle			there	around windows = window	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location
3	not die	present	Popular Song			long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	present	the earth	a hill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient
5	rest	may	Song's foot		a hill		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location
6	tell		windows = window				nom tale «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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