Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 12

There are some up above too; they put out their heads and pipe softly; they have no feathers like their father and mother.

Who acts: some, roses · What happens: be, put out, have · To what, where: heads, feathers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, roses), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 are	nsubj
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 some	compound:prt
5	above	above	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 put	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pipe	cc
14	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heads	conj
15	softly	softly	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 feathers	det
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feathers	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mother	cc
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 father	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	some		there	above property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put out	past	roses = rose	roses's heads and pipe		softly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	have	present	roses = rose	no feathers		like roses's father and mother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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