Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 7
With a sort of reverence the daisy looked up to the bird that could fly and sing, but it did not feel envious. "
Who acts: daisy, bird · What happens: look up, fly, sing, not feel, sort · To what, where: reverence
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 (daisy, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sort | det |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 reverence | case |
| 5 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daisy | det |
| 7 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 looked | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fly | aux |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bird | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sing | cc |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fly | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 feel | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 feel | advmod |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 looked | parataxis |
| 24 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the daisy | with a sort of reverence; to the bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | could | the bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | the bird not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not feel | past · do-support | daisy | envious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sort | reverence | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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