Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 47

The roses thought that the nightingale was singing about itself, and that one might easily have believed; they had no idea that the song was about them.

Who acts: roses, nightingale, song · What happens: think, sing, believe, have, be · To what, where: one, idea

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, nightingale, song), 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 roses	det
2	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 singing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nightingale	det
6	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 singing	aux
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thought	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 singing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 believed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 believed	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 believed	mark
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 believed	nsubj:pass
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 believed	aux
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 believed	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 believed	aux
18	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 idea	det
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 them	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 song	det
26	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 them	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 them	cop
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the roses			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the nightingale		about nightingale	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about itself=Location
3	believe	might · perfect · passive		one	easily property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	have	past	roses = rose	no idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
5	is	past	the song		about clouds = cloud	tree rules

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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