Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 79

As soon as the artificial bird was wound up, it could sing like the real one, and could move its tail up and down, which sparkled with silver and gold.

Who acts: doubt · What happens: woun up, sing, move, sparkle · To what, where: artificial bird, tail

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 (doubt), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 sing	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 wound	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wound	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wound	aux:pass
8	wound	woun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sing	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 wound	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wound	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sing	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sing	aux
13	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 one	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 move	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 move	aux
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sing	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tail	nmod:poss
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	obj
24	up	up	ADV	_	21 move	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 down	cc
26	down	down	ADV	_	24 up	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sparkled	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sparkled	nsubj
29	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 move	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 silver	case
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sparkled	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gold	cc
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 silver	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	woun up	past · passive		the artificial bird		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	could	doubt		like the real one; soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	could	doubt not said here	doubt's tail		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
4	sparkle	past			with silver and gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with silver=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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