Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 8
He bent his head mournfully, and sighed in deep sorrow, as an unquiet spirit might sigh.
Who acts: giant, unquiet spirit · What happens: bend, sigh · To what, where: head
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 (giant, unquiet spirit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obj |
| 5 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 2 bent | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sighed | cc |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bent | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sorrow | case |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sorrow | amod |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sighed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sigh | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 sigh | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spirit | det |
| 15 | unquiet | unquiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spirit | amod |
| 16 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sigh | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sigh | aux |
| 18 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sighed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | giant | giant's head | mournfully property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | |||
| 2 | sigh | past | giant not said here | in deep sorrow | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sorrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sigh | might | a unquiet spirit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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