Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 68
"It's only a sparrow," they said; they did not, however, let her go, but took her home with them, and every time she cried they hit her on the beak.
Who acts: way, sparrows, hair · What happens: be, say, not do, let, go, take · To what, where: sparrow, hair, home, time · 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 (way, sparrows, hair), 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 | _ | 6 sparrow | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sparrow | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sparrow | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sparrow | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sparrow | det |
| 6 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sparrow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sparrow | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 let | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hit | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hit | cc |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hit | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 cried | nsubj |
| 33 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 time | acl:relcl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hit | nsubj |
| 35 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hit | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 beak | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beak | det |
| 39 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hit | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | way | a sparrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sparrows = sparrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | sparrows = sparrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | hair | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | hair not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | past | hair's home | with sparrows = sparrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | past | hair | every time not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Topic | ||||
| 8 | hit | past | sparrows = sparrow | hair | time | on the beak | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on beak=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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