Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 47

"Hark, hark! there she is," said the girl, "and there she sits," she added, pointing to a little gray bird who was perched on a bough.

Who acts: nightingale, girl · What happens: be, say, sit, add, point, perch · To what, where: little gray bird, bough · 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 (nightingale, girl), 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	_	2 Hark	punct
2	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 is	dep
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hark	punct
4	hark	hark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hark	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hark	punct
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 is	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sits	cc
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sits	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sits	nsubj
19	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 added	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 added	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 added	nsubj
23	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sits	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pointing	punct
25	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 added	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 bird	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bird	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
29	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pointing	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 perched	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 perched	aux:pass
33	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bird	acl:relcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 bough	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bough	det
36	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 perched	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	nightingale			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	present	nightingale			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	add speech: assert	past	nightingale				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	point	gerund	nightingale not said here		a little gray bird		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient
6	perch	past · passive		a little gray bird		a bough	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bough=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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