Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 35

Indeed the poor bird had good reason to be sad, for it had been caught and put into a cage close by the open window.

Who acts: poor bird · What happens: have, be, catch, put · To what, where: good reason, reason, cage

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 (poor 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 sad	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sad	cop
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 caught	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 caught	aux:pass
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 caught	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cage	det
21	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
22	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cage	amod
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 window	amod
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor bird	good reason		indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	is	to-infinitive	the poor bird not said here	good reason not said here		sad property	tree rules
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		reason			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	put	participle			a cage		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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