Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 57

"I'll pluck them," piped the young sparrow, who had no feathers yet.

Who acts: Nothing, young sparrow · What happens: pluck, pipe, have · To what, where: birds, young sparrow, feathers · 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 (Nothing, young sparrow), 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	_	4 pluck	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pluck	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pluck	aux
4	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 piped	parataxis
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pluck	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pluck	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pluck	punct
8	piped	pipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sparrow	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sparrow	amod
11	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 piped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sparrow	acl:relcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 feathers	det
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 piped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pluck in a quote	future	Nothing	birds = bird		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	pipe	past		the young sparrow		tree rules
3	have	past	the young sparrow	no feathers	yet	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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