Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 131

Then he gave a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather, and composed a song for the drum, and the drummer beat it through the streets of the town, and when the people heard it they said, "That is a capital tune."

Who acts: poet, drummer, people, That · What happens: give, compose, beat, hear, say, be · To what, where: drummer twopence, song, streets, capital tune · Speech: someone speaks here

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, drummer, people, That), 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 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 twopence	det
5	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twopence	compound
6	twopence	twopence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feather	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 peacock	det
9	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feather	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 peacock	case
11	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twopence	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 composed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 composed	cc
14	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 composed	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 drum	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drum	det
19	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 composed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beat	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 drummer	det
23	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beat	nsubj
24	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beat	obj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 streets	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 streets	det
28	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 beat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 town	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 streets	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 heard	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	obj
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 said	nsubj
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tune	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 tune	punct
43	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 tune	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 tune	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 tune	det
46	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tune	amod
47	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 said	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 tune	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 tune	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	poet	a drummer twopence and a peacock's feather		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twopence=Theme
2	compose	past	poet not said here	a song			for the drum	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Result for drum=Beneficiary
3	beat	present	the drummer	song	the streets of the town			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	hear	past	the people	song				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	people					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	That	a capital tune				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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