Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 83

When she had finished, she lay down again, and the little bird, who wished to be amiable, began to sing,--

Who acts: Portuguese, little bird · What happens: finish, lie down, wish, be, begin, sing · To what, where: little bird

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 (Portuguese, little 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	conj
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bird	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bird	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wished	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wished	nsubj
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bird	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 amiable	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 amiable	cop
20	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wished	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wished	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sing	mark
24	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Portuguese				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	lie down	past	Portuguese	the little bird	again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	the little bird				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little bird not said here			amiable property	tree rules
5	begin	past	the little bird not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the little bird not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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