Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 170

They had little ones, and of course each one thought his own the handsomest and cleverest; one flew this way, another that, and when they met they recognised each other by their "Peep!" and the three scrapes with the left foot.

Who acts: pigeons, one · What happens: have, think, fly, meet, recognise, peep · To what, where: little ones, way, each

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, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
7	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	11 thought	advmod
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 of	fixed
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 handsomest	det
15	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 own	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cleverest	cc
17	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 handsomest	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 another	punct
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 flew	conj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 another	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 met	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 met	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 met	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 met	nsubj
30	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flew	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 recognised	nsubj
32	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 met	conj
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 recognised	obj
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 Peep	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 Peep	nmod:poss
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Peep	punct
38	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 recognised	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 Peep	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Peep	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 scrapes	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 scrapes	det
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 scrapes	nummod
44	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 Peep	conj
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 foot	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 foot	det
47	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 foot	amod
48	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 scrapes	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	pigeons = pigeon	little ones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	each one		own property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	one	this way		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	meet	past	pigeons = pigeon			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	recognise	past	pigeons = pigeon	each	by pigeons's Peep and the three scrapes with the left foot	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
6	peep in a quote		pigeons = pigeon			nom peep «event intransitive»: 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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