Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 143
Then they consulted the swallow who had travelled so far, and the old hen in the yard, who had brought up five broods of chickens.
Who acts: presents, swallow · What happens: consult, travell, bring up · To what, where: swallow, old hen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents, swallow), 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 | 3 consulted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swallow | det |
| 5 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 travelled | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 travelled | aux |
| 8 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 travelled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hen | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hen | amod |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 yard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 yard | det |
| 18 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hen | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 travelled | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 broods | nummod |
| 25 | broods | brood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 chickens | case |
| 27 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 broods | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | presents = present | the swallow | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme | |||
| 2 | travell | past · perfect | the swallow | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | the old hen in the yard | tree rules |
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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