Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 100

So saying, she made a bite at the little singing-bird's head, and he fell dead on the ground. "

Who acts: creature, bird · What happens: say, make, fall · To what, where: bite, head, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, bird), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bite	det
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	15 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bird	amod
11	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bird	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 singing	punct
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 bird	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fell	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	creature not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	creature	a bite	the little singing bird's head		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Product
3	fall	past	bird		the ground	dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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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