Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 93
"It was sunshine here yesterday," said the little bird, "but to-day it is cloudy and the air is close."
Who acts: attention, sunshine, air · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sunshine, little bird · 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 (attention, sunshine, air), 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 | _ | 4 sunshine | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sunshine | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sunshine | cop |
| 4 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sunshine | advmod |
| 6 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sunshine | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sunshine | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sunshine | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 cloudy | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cloudy | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cloudy | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cloudy | cop |
| 21 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 close | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 close | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 close | cop |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloudy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cloudy | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cloudy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | attention | sunshine | here | yesterday | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sunshine | the little bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | attention | day | cloudy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the air | close property | 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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