Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 20
The red hips gleamed on the hedges, and the starling which hung in the green cage outside the window of the peasant's hut, which was his home, whistled the tune which he had taught him.
Who acts: starling, hut, red hips · What happens: gleam, hang, be, whistle, teach · To what, where: red hips, hedges, green cage, home, tune, starling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (starling, hut, red hips), 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 hips | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hips | amod |
| 3 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 whistled | nsubj |
| 4 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hips | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hedges | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hedges | det |
| 7 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gleamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 whistled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 whistled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 starling | det |
| 11 | starling | starling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whistled | nsubj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 starling | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cage | det |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cage | amod |
| 17 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 peasant | det |
| 23 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 peasant | case |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 window | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 home | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 home | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 home | cop |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 home | nmod:poss |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 starling | punct |
| 32 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tune | det |
| 34 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whistled | obj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taught | aux |
| 38 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 tune | acl:relcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 taught | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the red hips not said here | the hedges | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hedge=Location | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the starling | the green cage | outside the window of the peasant's hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the peasant's hut | starling's home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | whistle | past | the red hips | the tune | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the tune | starling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
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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