Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 6

These are the words of the song, but each only sang what he could remember of them in his own way.

Who acts: These, each, number · What happens: be, sing, remember · To what, where: words, own way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (These, each, number), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 words	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sang	cc
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sang	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 sang	advmod
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 words	parataxis
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 remember	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 remember	aux
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sang	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 way	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remember	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	These	the words		of the song	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	each				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember	could	number		number's own way	of words = word	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=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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