Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 2
The winged songster serenades the fragrant flowers.
Who acts: winged songster · What happens: wing, serenade · To what, where: fragrant flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winged songster), 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 | 3 songster | det |
| 2 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 songster | amod |
| 3 | songster | songster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 serenades | nsubj |
| 4 | serenades | serenade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 6 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 serenades | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 serenades | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | serenade | present | the winged songster | the fragrant flowers | 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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