Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 85
The bird wanted to give utterance to thoughts that stirred in his breast, as the cuckoo and the nightingale in the spring, but it could not.
Who acts: bird, thoughts · What happens: want, give, stir · To what, where: utterance, thoughts, breast
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 (bird, thoughts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 thoughts | case |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stirred | nsubj |
| 10 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thoughts | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 breast | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stirred | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cuckoo | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 cuckoo | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cuckoo | det |
| 17 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nightingale | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nightingale | det |
| 20 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cuckoo | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 spring | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spring | det |
| 23 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nightingale | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 could | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 could | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 could | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the bird | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | utterance | thoughts | as the cuckoo and the nightingale in the spring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to thought=Recipient | ||
| 3 | stir | past | thoughts | creation's breast | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location |
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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