Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 36
He knew how to climb, as we have already said, and eggs and fluffy-feathered young birds were brought down.
Who acts: Marie, we · What happens: know, climb, say, bring down · To what, where: eggs · 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 (Marie, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 climb | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 climb | mark |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 climb | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 birds | cc |
| 16 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 birds | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fluffy | punct |
| 18 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 birds | amod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 birds | amod |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eggs | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 climb | parataxis |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Marie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring down | past · passive | eggs and fluffy feathered young birds | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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