Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 39
Whenever the sun shone, we felt his warm rays, and the little birds would relate stories to us as they sung.
Who acts: sun, we, little birds, birds · What happens: shine, feel, relate, sung, ray · To what, where: warm rays, stories, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, we, little birds, birds), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 shone | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rays | nmod:poss |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rays | amod |
| 10 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 felt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 relate | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 relate | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birds | amod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 relate | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 relate | aux |
| 17 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 felt | conj |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 relate | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 relate | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 sung | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sung | nsubj |
| 23 | sung | sung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 relate | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | whenever property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | we | sun's warm rays | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | ||||
| 3 | relate | would | the little birds | stories | us | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to we=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sung | present | birds = bird | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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