Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 48
But they were very pleased with it, and wondered whether all the little sparrows could become nightingales.
Who acts: roses, little sparrows · What happens: be, wonder, become · To what, where: nightingales
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, little sparrows), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 pleased | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wondered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wondered | cc |
| 10 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sparrows | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sparrows | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sparrows | amod |
| 15 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 become | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wondered | advcl |
| 18 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 become | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | roses = rose | with song; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | roses = rose not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | become | could | all little sparrows | nightingales | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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