Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 10
But when they returned to their fishing, they forgot the bird until the next night.
Who acts: trees · What happens: return, forget, fish · To what, where: bird
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgot | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fishing | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgot | obj |
| 13 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgot | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | trees = tree | to trees's fishing result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fishing=Result | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | trees = tree | the bird | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fish | trees = tree | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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