Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 40

First comes the band of sparrows: they pipe at every trifle in the streets and lanes, in the nests and the houses; they have stories to tell about the front buildings and the back buildings.

Who acts: sparrows · What happens: come, pipe, have, tell · To what, where: band, trifle, stories · 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 (sparrows), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 band	det
4	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sparrows	case
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 band	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 pipe	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pipe	nsubj
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 trifle	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 trifle	det
12	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipe	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 streets	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 streets	det
15	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trifle	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lanes	cc
17	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 streets	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nests	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 nests	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nests	det
21	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 streets	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 houses	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 houses	det
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 streets	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stories	acl
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 buildings	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 buildings	det
33	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 buildings	amod
34	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 buildings	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 buildings	det
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 buildings	compound
38	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 buildings	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present		the band of sparrows		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location band=Theme
2	pipe		sparrows = sparrow		every trifle in the streets and lanes and the nests and the houses		tree rules
3	have	present	sparrows = sparrow	stories			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	sparrows = sparrow not said here	stories not said here		about the front buildings and the back buildings	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about building=Topic

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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