Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 49

Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches, and talk to each other about the beautiful fields they have visited in foreign lands; and on one of the withered boughs a stork has built his nest,--it is beautifully arranged, and besides it is pleasant to hear a little about the land of the pyramids.

Who acts: birds, beautiful fields, nest · What happens: continue, sing up, talk, visit, wither, build · To what, where: dryad, branches, birds, foreign lands, stork, nest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, beautiful fields, nest), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 continued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dryad	det
6	dryad	dryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	nsubj
11	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 sing	compound:prt
13	above	above	ADV	_	11 sing	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 branches	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 branches	det
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 talk	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 talk	cc
19	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sing	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	19 talk	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	about	about	ADP	_	26 fields	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fields	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fields	amod
26	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 talk	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 visited	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 visited	aux
29	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fields	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 lands	case
31	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lands	amod
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 visited	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 built	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 built	cc
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 one	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 built	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 boughs	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boughs	det
39	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 boughs	amod
40	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 built	obl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 stork	det
42	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 built	nsubj:pass
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 built	aux
44	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 continued	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 nest	nmod:poss
46	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 built	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 arranged	punct
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 arranged	punct
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 arranged	nsubj:pass
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 arranged	aux:pass
51	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	52 arranged	advmod
52	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 built	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 pleasant	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 pleasant	cc
55	besides	besides	ADP	_	58 pleasant	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pleasant	nsubj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 pleasant	cop
58	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 continued	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 hear	mark
60	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 pleasant	advcl
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 little	det
62	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 hear	obj
63	about	about	ADP	_	65 land	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 land	det
65	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hear	obl
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 pyramids	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 pyramids	det
68	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 land	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past		the dryad			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dryad=Theme
2	sing up speech: express	present	the birds		the branches	above property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location
3	talk	infinitive	the birds not said here			to each; about the beautiful fields	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent about field=Topic
4	visit	present · perfect · passive	the beautiful fields not said here	birds = bird	foreign lands		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
5	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	build	present · perfect · passive		a stork		on one; of the withered boughs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product
7	arrange	present · passive		nest		beautifully property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
8	is	present	nest			pleasant property	tree rules
9	hear	to-infinitive	nest not said here	a little		about the land of the pyramids	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=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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