Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 50
It is the Bird of Popular Song whom we hear.
Who acts: death, we · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: Bird
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 (death, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Bird | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bird | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 4 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Song | case |
| 6 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Song | amod |
| 7 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bird | nmod |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 hear | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bird | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | death | the Bird | of Popular Song | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | present | we | the Bird | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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