Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 41
"We know the buried town," they say; "everything living in it is piep! piep! piep!"
Who acts: We, sparrows, everything · What happens: know, bury, say, live, be · To what, where: buried town, town, piep · 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 (We, sparrows, everything), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 piep | parataxis |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 piep | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 everything | punct |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 piep | nsubj |
| 14 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 everything | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 living | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 piep | cop |
| 18 | piep | piep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piep | compound |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 piep | punct |
| 20 | piep | piep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piep | compound |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 piep | punct |
| 22 | piep | piep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 piep | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 piep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | We | the buried town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | sparrows = sparrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | gerund | town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | everything | piep | tree rules |
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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