Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 160
The little singing bird flies far from you and your court to the home of the fisherman and the peasant's cot.
Who acts: little singing bird · What happens: fly · To what, where: you, home
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 (little singing bird), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 3 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | compound |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | nsubj |
| 5 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 you | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 flies | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 court | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 court | nmod:poss |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 you | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fisherman | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fisherman | det |
| 17 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 home | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cot | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 peasant | case |
| 22 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fisherman | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the little singing bird | you | the home of the fisherman and the peasant's cot | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to home=Destination |
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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