Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 162
Then a little bird in the thicket sang out clearly, and old Anthony thought of the minstrel's song.
Who acts: little bird, old Anthony, minstrel · What happens: sing out, think, sing
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 (little bird, old Anthony, minstrel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sang | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | nmod |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sang | compound:prt |
| 10 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 8 sang | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Anthony | amod |
| 14 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sang | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 song | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 minstrel | det |
| 18 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 song | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 minstrel | case |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing out speech: express | past | a little bird in the thicket | then | clearly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | old Anthony | of the minstrel's song | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing | the minstrel | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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