Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 41

John slept here quite safely all night; and when he awoke, the sun was up, and all the little birds were singing round him, "Good morning, good morning.

Who acts: John, little birds · What happens: sleep, awake up, sing

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 (John, little 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 slept	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 safely	advmod
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	2 slept	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 awoke	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 awoke	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 awoke	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 awoke	nsubj
12	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 up	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 up	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADP	_	12 awoke	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 singing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 singing	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 birds	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 birds	amod
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 singing	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 singing	aux
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 awoke	advcl
26	round	round	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 singing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
30	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 morning	amod
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 singing	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 morning	punct
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 morning	amod
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 morning	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	John	here	night	safely property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	awake up	past	John				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past · progressive	all little birds		morning	round John	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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