Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 49
"I understand the song of that bird very well," said the young sparrows. "
Who acts: young sparrows, bird · What happens: understand, say, sing · To what, where: song · 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 (young sparrows, bird), 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 | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understand | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | nmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 understand | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sparrows | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sparrows | amod |
| 16 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | present | the young sparrows = sparrow | the song of that bird | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young sparrows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sing in a quote | that bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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