Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 9
Then a little bird flies towards the grating, for birds twitter to the just as well as to the unjust.
Who acts: little bird, birds · What happens: fly, twitter · To what, where: grating, unjust
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 (little bird, birds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flies | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | nsubj |
| 5 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 grating | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grating | det |
| 8 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twitter | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 twitter | mark |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 twitter | nsubj |
| 12 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flies | conj | ||
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 unjust | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 unjust | det |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 unjust | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 unjust | cc |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 unjust | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 unjust | det |
| 21 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 twitter | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a little bird | the grating | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards grating=Destination | |||
| 2 | present | birds | the unjust | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to unjust=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/9/