Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 126
The pigeon-mothers said to their young ones: "Stand in groups, stand in groups! for that looks much better."
Who acts: pigeon mothers, that · What happens: say, stand, look · To what, where: young ones, groups · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pigeon mothers, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mothers | det |
| 2 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mothers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pigeon | punct |
| 4 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ones | nmod:poss |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 12 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 groups | case |
| 14 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Stand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Stand | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 groups | case |
| 18 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stand | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 groups | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 looks | mark |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 looks | nsubj |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | advcl |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 better | advmod |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 looks | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the pigeon mothers | roses's young ones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | infinitive | groups | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present | groups | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present | that | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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