Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 15
"If you take the second glass--from this a little bird soars upward, twittering in guileless cheerfulness, so that a man may listen to his song, and perhaps join in 'Fair is life! no downcast looks!
Who acts: you, downcast, man · What happens: take, soar, twitter, listen, join, be · To what, where: second glass, guileless cheerfulness, Fair life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, downcast, man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 soars | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 soars | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 glass | amod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bird | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soars | obl |
| 14 | soars | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 looks | advcl |
| 15 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 14 soars | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 twittering | punct |
| 17 | twittering | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 soars | advcl | |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cheerfulness | case |
| 19 | guileless | guileless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cheerfulness | amod |
| 20 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 twittering | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 listen | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 listen | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 listen | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 listen | aux |
| 27 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 twittering | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 song | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 song | nmod:poss |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 listen | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 join | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 join | cc |
| 33 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 34 join | advmod |
| 34 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 soars | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 life | punct |
| 37 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 life | compound |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 life | cop |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 join | obl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 soars | punct |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 downcast | det |
| 42 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 looks | nsubj |
| 43 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the second glass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | soar in a quote | present | no downcast not said here | from a little bird; upward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from bird=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | twitter in a quote | gerund | no downcast not said here | guileless cheerfulness | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | may | a man | to man's song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | join in a quote | present | no downcast not said here | perhaps property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Fair life | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look in a quote | present | no downcast | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | sing in a quote | man | 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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