Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 113

The bird cried, as it always cried, "You thief! you thief!"

Who acts: bird, body, You · What happens: cry, thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, body, You), 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	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 cried	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 cried	advmod
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thief	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 thief	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thief	nsubj
12	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 thief	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thief	nsubj
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	parataxis
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 thief	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the bird		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	body	always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	thief in a quote		You		tree rules
4	thief in a quote		you		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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