Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 89
Then, from a hole in the wall, gushed forth in song the swelling thoughts of the bird as he issued from his hiding place to perform his first good deed on earth,--and in heaven it was well known who that bird was.
Who acts: sun · What happens: gush, issue, perform, know, be, think · To what, where: hole, hiding place, first good deed, earth, bird, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gushed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gushed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gushed | punct |
| 10 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 gushed | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 song | case |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gushed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thoughts | det |
| 15 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thoughts | compound |
| 16 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 song | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thoughts | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 issued | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 issued | nsubj |
| 22 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gushed | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | compound |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 issued | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 perform | mark |
| 28 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 issued | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 deed | nmod:poss |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 deed | amod |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deed | amod |
| 32 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 perform | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 perform | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 known | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 known | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 known | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 heaven | case |
| 39 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 known | obl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 known | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 known | aux:pass |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 known | advmod |
| 43 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 issued | conj |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 was | nsubj |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 bird | det |
| 46 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 was | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 known | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gush | participle | a hole in the wall | then | in song the swelling thoughts of the bird; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location | |||
| 2 | issue | past | sun | sun's hiding place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perform | to-infinitive | sun not said here | sun's first good deed | earth | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | past · passive | bird | heaven | well property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | think | the bird | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/89/