Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 66

The little singing-bird busied himself for some time with his broken wing, and at last he lay down, too, quite close to his protectress.

Who acts: little singing bird, bird · What happens: busy, break, lie down · To what, where: bird, last

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 (little singing bird, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busied	nsubj
6	busied	busy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 busied	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busied	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 wing	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wing	nmod:poss
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wing	amod
14	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busied	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 too	punct
23	too	too	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 close	punct
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 close	advmod
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lay	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 protectress	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 protectress	nmod:poss
29	protectress	protectress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 busied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	busy	past	the little singing bird	bird		time		tree rules
2	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	lie down	past	bird		last		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=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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