Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 20

There was such a noise that the canary woke up and began to talk, and in poetry too.

Who acts: noise, canary · What happens: be, wake up, begin, talk · To what, where: poetry, noise

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, canary), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 noise	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 woke	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canary	det
8	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	nsubj
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noise	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 woke	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woke	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poetry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poetry	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 poetry	case
18	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
19	too	too	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	such noise		poetry; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poetry=Location
2	wake up	past	the canary	such noise not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent noise=Patient
3	begin	past	the canary not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk	to-infinitive	the canary not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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