Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 44
The owl beat the drum, the crickets whistled and the grasshoppers played the mouth-organ.
Who acts: owl, crickets, grasshoppers · What happens: beat, whistle, play · To what, where: drum, mouth organ
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, crickets, grasshoppers), 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 | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drum | det |
| 5 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whistled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crickets | det |
| 8 | crickets | cricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 whistled | nsubj |
| 9 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 played | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grasshoppers | det |
| 12 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 played | nsubj |
| 13 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whistled | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 organ | det |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 organ | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mouth | punct |
| 17 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 played | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | the owl | the drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the crickets | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play | past | the grasshoppers | the mouth organ | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Theme |
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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