Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 54
These birds are called peacocks, and that is 'the beautiful.'
Who acts: that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: birds · 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 (that), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beautiful | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 called | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | this birds | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | beautiful property | 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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