Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 53
Hear the story of the year: "The night of the snow-storm, the heavy dream of the winter night, all shall be dissolved, all shall rise again in the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies!"
Who acts: you, snow storm, all, Bird · What happens: hear, dissolve, rise, not die, dream, note · To what, where: story, all, beauteous notes, winter night, 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 (you, snow storm, all, Bird), 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 | Hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hear | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rise | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 storm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 storm | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 storm | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 snow | punct |
| 15 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dream | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dream | det |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dream | amod |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 storm | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 22 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 night | compound |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dream | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dissolved | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 dissolved | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 dissolved | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dissolved | aux:pass |
| 28 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 storm | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rise | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 rise | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 rise | aux |
| 32 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hear | parataxis |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 rise | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 notes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 notes | det |
| 36 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 notes | amod |
| 37 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rise | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Bird | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Bird | det |
| 40 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 notes | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Song | case |
| 42 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Song | amod |
| 43 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Bird | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 dies | punct |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 dies | nsubj |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 dies | advmod |
| 47 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 Bird | parataxis |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | imperative | you not said here | the story of the year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dissolve in a quote | shall · passive | the snow storm not said here | all | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | shall | all | the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song | again; night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in note=Location | |||
| 4 | not die in a quote | present | the Bird of Popular Song | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | dream in a quote | the winter night | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | note in a quote | the Bird of Popular Song | nom note «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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