Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 59

Now the drake came up, and he thought the little singing-bird was a sparrow. "

Who acts: drake, little singing bird · What happens: come up, think, be · To what, where: sparrow · 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 (drake, little singing 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drake	det
3	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
12	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bird	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 singing	punct
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sparrow	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sparrow	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sparrow	det
17	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come up	past	the drake		now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	drake			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the little singing bird	a sparrow		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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