Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 62

"This sight is really too tedious," said the sparrow-mother, who could see into the room from her nest; and she flew away.

Who acts: sight, sparrow mother, mother · What happens: be, say, see, fly away · To what, where: room · 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 (sight, sparrow mother, mother), 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	_	7 tedious	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tedious	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tedious	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 tedious	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 tedious	advmod
7	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tedious	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tedious	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
12	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sparrow	punct
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mother	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nest	nmod:poss
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 room	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flew	nsubj
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 flew	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this sight		tedious property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sparrow mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	could	the sparrow mother	the room from mother's nest		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	fly away	past	mother		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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