Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 27
And the swallow, who had dived, told about the pretty little goldfish, of the thick turbot, the fat brill, and the old carp.
Who acts: swallow · What happens: dive, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (swallow), 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 | _ | 3 swallow | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallow | det |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dived | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dived | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dived | aux |
| 7 | dived | dive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 dived | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 goldfish | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goldfish | det |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goldfish | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goldfish | amod |
| 14 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turbot | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 turbot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 turbot | det |
| 18 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turbot | amod |
| 19 | turbot | turbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brill | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brill | det |
| 22 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brill | amod |
| 23 | brill | brill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turbot | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carp | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carp | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 carp | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 carp | amod |
| 28 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past · perfect | the swallow and the old carp | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | the swallow and the old carp not said here | about the pretty little goldfish; of the thick turbot and the fat brill | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about goldfish=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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