Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 101
The street-boys sang, "Zi-zi-zi, cluck, cluck, cluck," and the emperor himself could sing it also.
Who acts: street boys, emperor · What happens: sing, cluck · To what, where: zi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (street boys, emperor), 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 | 4 boys | det |
| 2 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boys | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 street | punct |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 zi | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 zi | punct |
| 8 | Zi | Zi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 zi | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zi | punct |
| 10 | zi | zi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 zi | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 zi | punct |
| 12 | zi | zi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cluck | punct |
| 14 | cluck | cluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 zi | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cluck | punct |
| 16 | cluck | cluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 cluck | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cluck | punct |
| 18 | cluck | cluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 cluck | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sing | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 emperor | det |
| 23 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sing | nsubj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 sing | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sing | aux |
| 26 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sang | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sing | obj |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 sing | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the street boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cluck in a quote | infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cluck in a quote | infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cluck in a quote | infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | could | the emperor | zi | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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