Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 16
The next day when the children were playing together, and saw the storks, they sang the song again--
Who acts: children, storks · What happens: play, see, sing · To what, where: storks, song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, storks), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 playing | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 playing | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 playing | aux |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 playing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storks | det |
| 14 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sang | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sang | nsubj |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 song | det |
| 19 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sang | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 sang | advmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | the children | together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the storks | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | storks = stork | the song | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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