Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 32

"We know, we know," sang the sparrows; "we have looked in at the windows of the houses in the town, and we know what is done with them.

Who acts: We, sparrows · What happens: know, sing, look in, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sparrows), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sang	punct
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sparrows	det
11	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sang	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	aux
16	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 know	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 looked	compound:prt
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 windows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 windows	det
20	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 houses	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 houses	det
23	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 windows	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 houses	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux:pass
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 know	ccomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	We		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	know in a quote	present	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	past	the sparrows		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look in in a quote	present · perfect	we	at the windows of the houses in the town	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
5	know in a quote	present	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do in a quote	present · passive		with branches = branch	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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