Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 85

And then she sang a simple song, which, through her singing, became a true story, and as if she poured forth the feelings of her own heart.

Who acts: girl, simple song · What happens: sing, become, pour · To what, where: simple song, true story, singing, feelings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, simple song), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sang	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sang	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 became	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 which	punct
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 singing	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 singing	nmod:poss
13	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 singing	punct
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 song	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 story	det
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 poured	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 poured	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 poured	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 poured	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 poured	nsubj
24	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 poured	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feelings	det
27	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 poured	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 heart	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 heart	amod
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feelings	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	girl	a simple song		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	become	past	a simple song	a true story	girl's singing			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	pour a condition, not said to happen	past	girl	the feelings of girl's own heart			forth property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
4	sing		girl					nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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