Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 51
The boys came again in the street singing their song:--
Who acts: boys, street · What happens: come, sing · To what, where: street, 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 (boys, street), 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 | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 street | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 song | nmod:poss |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 singing | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boys | the street | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the street not said here | boys's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing | boys = boy | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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