Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 107
Such a song had not been sung, at the children's cradle as I sung now.
Who acts: I · What happens: not sing, sung · To what, where: song, cradle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 song | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sung | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sung | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sung | aux:pass |
| 7 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cradle | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 cradle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 children | case |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sung | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 sung | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sung | nsubj |
| 16 | sung | sung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sung | advcl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sung | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | such song | the children's cradle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sung | present | I | now | tree rules |
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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