Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 83
The sun burst forth, over her head a little bird carolled his song, and the church-bells sounded for the early service.
Who acts: sun, little bird, church bells, bird · What happens: burst, caroll, sound, sing · To what, where: song, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, little bird, church bells, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 burst | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carolled | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carolled | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carolled | nsubj |
| 12 | carolled | caroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 song | nmod:poss |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carolled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sounded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sounded | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bells | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bells | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 church | punct |
| 20 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sounded | nsubj |
| 21 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 service | det |
| 24 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 service | amod |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sounded | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the sun | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | caroll | past | a little bird | bird's song | mother's head | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sound | past | the church bells | for the early service | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sing | bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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