Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 5
Not a singing bird was ever heard there, neither did men dance to the sound of the pipe.
Who acts: men · What happens: sing, not hear, dance · To what, where: singing bird, sound
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 heard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 heard | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dance | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 dance | cc:preconj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dance | aux |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dance | nsubj |
| 13 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dance | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pipe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pipe | det |
| 19 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not hear | past · passive | a singing bird | there | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dance | past · do-support | men | the sound of the pipe | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory |
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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