Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 22
The bird kissed it with its beak, sang to it, and then rose again up to the blue sky.
Who acts: bird · What happens: kiss, sing, rise · To what, where: idea, blue sky
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beak | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beak | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rose | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 rose | advmod |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 rose | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sky | amod |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the bird | idea | with idea's beak | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with beak=Instrument | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the bird not said here | idea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the bird not said here | the blue sky | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up sky=Initial_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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