Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 24

"Listen to the dear little birds up there," said the roses; "they begin to want to sing too, but are not able to manage it yet.

Who acts: roses · What happens: listen, say, begin, want, sing, not be · To what, where: peep · 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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 birds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Listen	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Listen	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roses	det
14	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begin	nsubj
18	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 want	mark
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begin	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sing	mark
22	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	too	too	ADV	_	22 sing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 able	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 able	cc
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 able	advmod
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 begin	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 manage	mark
30	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 manage	obj
32	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 manage	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive			there		to the dear little birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the roses					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	present	roses = rose					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	want in a quote	to-infinitive	roses = rose not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	roses = rose not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is in a quote	present	roses = rose not said here				able property	tree rules
7	manage in a quote	to-infinitive	roses = rose not said here	peep		yet		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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