Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 4

An old maid stood at the window; she had hung chickweed over the cage, and the little linnet which it contained hopped from perch to perch and sang and twittered merrily.

Who acts: old maid, maid, little linnet · What happens: stand, hang, contain, hop, sing, twitter · To what, where: window, chickweed, cage, little linnet, perch

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 (old maid, maid, little linnet), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maid	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maid	amod
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hung	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hung	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hung	aux
11	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	conj
12	chickweed	chickweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 cage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cage	det
15	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hopped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hopped	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 linnet	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 linnet	amod
20	linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hopped	nsubj:pass
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 contained	nsubj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 contained	nsubj
23	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 linnet	acl:relcl
24	hopped	hop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 perch	case
26	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hopped	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 perch	case
28	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hopped	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hopped	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 twittered	cc
32	twittered	twitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sang	conj
33	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	32 twittered	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a old maid		the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	hang	past · perfect	maid	chickweed	the cage		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chickweed=Theme over cage=Destination
3	contain	past	the little linnet				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	hop	participle · passive		the little linnet	perch	to perch	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	sing speech: express	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	twitter	past				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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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