Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 14
The boys in Denmark make a song of it, thus:--
Who acts: boys, song · What happens: make, sing · To what, where: song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, song), 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 | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Denmark | case |
| 4 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boys | nmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thus | punct |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 make | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the boys in Denmark | a song of song | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Product | |||
| 2 | sing | song | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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