Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 82
Yet how quickly the little bird discovered the beauty of everything around it.
Who acts: little bird · What happens: discover · To what, where: beauty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 discovered | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 quickly | advmod |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 discovered | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 everything | case |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 beauty | nmod |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 everything | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the little bird | the beauty of everything | quickly property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=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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