Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 48

The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings against the wires; and the little daisy could not speak or utter a consoling word, much as it would have liked to do so.

Who acts: poor bird, little daisy · What happens: lament, lose, beat, not speak, utter, console · To what, where: lost liberty, wings, consoling word, much · 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 (poor bird, little daisy), 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	3 bird	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lamenting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lamenting	aux
5	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 liberty	nmod:poss
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 liberty	amod
8	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lamenting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beating	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beating	cc
11	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lamenting	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beating	obj
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 wires	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wires	det
16	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beating	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 speak	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 daisy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daisy	amod
21	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 speak	advmod
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lamenting	parataxis
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 utter	cc
26	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 speak	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
28	consoling	console	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 word	amod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 utter	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 much	punct
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 word	appos
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 liked	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 liked	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 liked	aux
36	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 much	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 liked	xcomp
39	so	so	ADV	_	38 do	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lamenting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lament	past · progressive	the poor bird	much's lost liberty		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beat	gerund	the poor bird not said here	much's wings	against the wires	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wing=Instrument against wire=Patient
4	not speak speech: other	could	the little daisy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	utter speech: other	infinitive	the little daisy not said here	a consoling word		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	console	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	like	would · perfect · passive		much		tree rules
8	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «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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