Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 64

The young sparrows now had feathers, and wanted very much to fly with their mother; but she would not allow it, and so they had to stay at home.

Who acts: young sparrows, mother, sparrows · What happens: have, want, fly, not allow, stay · To what, where: feathers, bush, home

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, mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrows	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sparrows	amod
3	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fly	mark
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fly	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 allow	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 allow	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allow	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 allow	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 allow	advmod
22	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allow	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stay	mark
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the young sparrows	feathers		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	want	past	the young sparrows not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young sparrows not said here				with sparrows's mother	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not allow	would	mother	bush				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
5	have	past	sparrows = sparrow					tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive	sparrows = sparrow not said here		home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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