Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 21
His grandmother hung green birds'-food around the cage, as he, her grandson, had been accustomed to do.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: hang, accustom, do · To what, where: food, cage
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 (grandmother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 birds | amod |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 food | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 food | punct |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 cage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cage | det |
| 11 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandson | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 grandson | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grandson | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandson | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accustomed | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accustomed | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 21 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hung | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 accustomed | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | starling's grandmother | green birds's food | the cage | as grandmother's grandson | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme around cage=Destination | ||
| 2 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | starling's grandmother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | starling's grandmother not said here | 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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