Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 14
I am sure the pretty bird will fly down and call upon them.
Who acts: I, pretty bird · What happens: be, fly down, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pretty bird), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | aux |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 fly | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 call | cc |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fly | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 call | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly down | future | the pretty bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | the pretty bird not said here | upon tulips = tulip | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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