Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 45
Then the wood-pigeons said, "Coo, coo; we have seen little Kay.
Who acts: wood pigeons, we · What happens: say, see · To what, where: little Kay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood pigeons, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pigeons | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pigeons | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Coo | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Coo | punct |
| 9 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coo | punct |
| 11 | coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Coo | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Kay | amod |
| 17 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wood pigeons | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | we | little Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kay=Stimulus |
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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