Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 26

The little birds in the chestnut-trees twittered, "Tweet, tweet;" they were so happy, although they had seen the funeral; but they seemed as if they knew that the dead man was now in heaven, and that he had wings much larger and more beautiful than their own; and he was happy now, because he had been good here on earth, and they were glad of it.

Who acts: little birds, birds, dead man, man · What happens: twitter, be, see, seem, know, have · To what, where: Tweet, funeral, heaven, wings, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little birds, birds, dead man, man), 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	3 birds	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 twittered	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
6	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 chestnut	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 birds	nmod
9	twittered	twitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tweet	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Tweet	punct
12	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 twittered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tweet	punct
14	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Tweet	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 happy	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 happy	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happy	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happy	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 happy	advmod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 twittered	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
22	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 seen	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 happy	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 funeral	det
27	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 twittered	parataxis
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seemed	advcl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 heaven	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 man	amod
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heaven	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 heaven	cop
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 heaven	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 heaven	case
43	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 knew	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 had	cc
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 had	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 twittered	conj
49	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 had	obj
50	much	much	ADV	_	51 larger	advmod
51	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 wings	amod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 beautiful	cc
53	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	54 beautiful	advmod
54	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 larger	conj
55	than	than	ADP	_	57 own	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 own	nmod:poss
57	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 beautiful	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 happy	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 happy	cc
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 happy	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 happy	cop
62	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 twittered	parataxis
63	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	62 happy	advmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 good	punct
65	because	because	SCONJ	_	69 good	mark
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 good	nsubj
67	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 good	aux
68	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	69 good	cop
69	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 happy	conj
70	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 good	advmod
71	on	on	ADP	_	72 earth	case
72	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 good	obl
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 glad	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 glad	cc
75	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 glad	nsubj
76	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 glad	cop
77	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 twittered	parataxis
78	of	of	ADP	_	79 it	case
79	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 glad	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 twittered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twitter	past	the little birds in the chestnut trees	Tweet and tweet				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tweet=Theme
2	is	past	birds = bird				happy property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	birds = bird	the funeral				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer funeral=Stimulus
4	seem	past	birds = bird					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	birds = bird					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	the dead man		heaven	now		tree rules
7	have	past	man	wings				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
8	is	past	man			now	happy property	tree rules
9	is	past · perfect	man		earth; here		good property	tree rules
10	is	past	birds = bird				of joy; glad property	tree rules

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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