Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 10
He only cries, "Tweet, tweet," and then perches himself near the grating, flutters his wings, pecks a feather from one of them, puffs himself out, and sets his feathers on end round his breast and throat.
Who acts: bird · What happens: cry, perch, flutter, peck, puff out, set · To what, where: Tweet, bird, grating, wings, feather, feathers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cries | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 cries | advmod |
| 3 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tweet | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cries | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tweet | punct |
| 8 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tweet | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tweet | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tweet | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 perches | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 perches | advmod |
| 13 | perches | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cries | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 perches | obj |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 grating | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grating | det |
| 17 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perches | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flutters | punct |
| 19 | flutters | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cries | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wings | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flutters | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pecks | punct |
| 23 | pecks | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cries | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 feather | det |
| 25 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pecks | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pecks | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 one | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 puffs | punct |
| 31 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pecks | conj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 puffs | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 puffs | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sets | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sets | cc |
| 36 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cries | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 38 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sets | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sets | obl |
| 41 | round | round | ADP | _ | 43 breast | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 breast | nmod:poss |
| 43 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sets | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 throat | cc |
| 45 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 breast | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | bird | Tweet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tweet=Topic | ||||
| 2 | perch | present | bird not said here | bird | the grating | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme near grating=Destination | ||
| 3 | flutter | present | bird not said here | bird's wings | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | peck | present | bird not said here | a feather | from one of gratings | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||
| 5 | puff out | present | bird not said here | bird | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Source | ||||
| 6 | set | present | bird not said here | bird's feathers | on end | round bird's breast and throat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on end=Destination |
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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