Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 84

"Chirp and twitter, The dew-drops glitter, In the hours of sunny spring, I'll sing my best, Till I go to rest, With my head behind my wing."

Who acts: dew drops, little bird · What happens: glitter, sing, go, rest · To what, where: Chirp, best, head, wing

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 (dew drops, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Chirp	punct
2	Chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glitter	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twitter	cc
4	twitter	twitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chirp	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Chirp	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drops	det
7	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drops	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dew	punct
9	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 glitter	nsubj
10	glitter	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hours	punct
12	In	in	ADP	_	14 hours	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hours	det
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 glitter	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 spring	case
16	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spring	amod
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hours	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sing	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sing	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sing	aux
21	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 glitter	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 best	nmod:poss
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 sing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
25	Till	till	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sing	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rest	mark
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 head	punct
31	With	with	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	obj
34	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 wing	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wing	nmod:poss
36	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 glitter	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 glitter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	glitter in a quote	present	the dew drops	Chirp and twitter		hour	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express in a quote	future	the little bird = bird	my best			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme
3	go in a quote	present	the little bird = bird				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rest in a quote	to-infinitive	the little bird = bird not said here	my head	my wing		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme behind wing=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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