Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 34

The little girl had learnt a hymn in which roses were spoken of, and then she thought of their own roses, and she sang the hymn to the little boy, and he sang too:--

Who acts: girl, window · What happens: learn, speak, think, sing · To what, where: little girl, hymn, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, window), 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 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learnt	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learnt	aux
5	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hymn	det
7	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 roses	det
10	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spoken	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux:pass
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 learnt	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 spoken	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 thought	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learnt	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 roses	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 roses	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 roses	amod
22	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thought	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sang	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sang	nsubj
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thought	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hymn	det
28	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sang	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 boy	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sang	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sang	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sang	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sang	nsubj
36	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learnt	parataxis
37	too	too	ADV	_	36 sang	advmod
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 --	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect · passive		the little girl				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	speak speech: other	past · passive		a hymn				tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	girl			then	of roses's own roses	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past	girl	the hymn	the little boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hymn=Topic to boy=Recipient
5	sing speech: express	past	window					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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