Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 135
The pigeons strutted round one another, puffed out their chests mightily, and had their own private views and opinions.
Who acts: pigeons · What happens: strut, puff out, have, view · To what, where: pigeons, chests, own private views
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 (pigeons), 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 | 2 pigeons | det |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 puffed | nsubj |
| 3 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pigeons | acl |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 strutted | obl |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 puffed | punct |
| 8 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 puffed | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chests | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 puffed | obj |
| 12 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 8 puffed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 puffed | parataxis |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 views | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 views | amod |
| 18 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 views | amod |
| 19 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opinions | cc |
| 21 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 views | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 puffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strut | participle | the pigeons not said here | round one | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round one=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | puff out | participle | the pigeons | pigeons's chests | mightily property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Source | |||
| 3 | have | past | pigeons's own private views and opinions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | |||||
| 4 | view | pigeons = pigeon | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=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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