Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 144

Then they hung it in the cage of the little bird, who sang and twittered more merrily than ever.

Who acts: people, little bird · What happens: hang, sing, twitter · To what, where: garret, cage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, little bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1002): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cage	det
7	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cage	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sang	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sang	nsubj
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bird	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 twittered	cc
16	twittered	twitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sang	conj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 merrily	advmod
18	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	16 twittered	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 merrily	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	people	garret	the cage of the little bird	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cage=Destination
2	sing speech: express	past	the little bird					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	twitter	past	the little bird not said here				merrily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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