Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 26
Of course his sweetheart was a crow, for "birds of a feather flock together," and one crow always chooses another crow.
Who acts: sweetheart, you, one crow · What happens: be, flock together, choose · To what, where: crow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, you, one crow), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 crow | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crow | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crow | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crow | det |
| 7 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flock | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 birds | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 birds | punct |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crow | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 feather | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feather | det |
| 14 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | flock | flock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 flock | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flock | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 flock | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chooses | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 crow | nummod |
| 21 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chooses | nsubj |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 chooses | advmod |
| 23 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 flock | conj |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 crow | det |
| 25 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chooses | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 flock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sweetheart's sweetheart | of a crow; for birds of a feather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flock together in a quote | imperative | you not said here | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | present | one crow | another crow | always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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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