Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 137

But when the little birds heard of it, they mourned, and for three days they sang not one song.

Who acts: little birds, birds · What happens: hear, mourn, not sing · To what, where: one song

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 (little birds, birds), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mourned	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mourned	nsubj
11	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sang	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sang	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mourned	conj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sang	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 song	nummod
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sang	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle	the little birds			of smoke	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	mourn	past	birds = bird				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not sing speech: express	past	birds = bird	one song	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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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