Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 130

And he made a song upon it, and sung it after his own fashion, but nobody listened.

Who acts: poet, nobody · What happens: make, sing, listen · To what, where: song, snail

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, nobody), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sung	cc
10	sung	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sung	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 fashion	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fashion	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fashion	amod
15	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listened	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 listened	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 listened	nsubj
19	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	poet	a song		upon snail	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Product
2	sing speech: express	past	poet not said here	snail	after poet's own fashion		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	listen	past	nobody				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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