Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 30
He could sing, and he sang like a bird in the woodland.
Who acts: name · What happens: sing · To what, where: woodland
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sang | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sang | nsubj |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 woodland | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woodland | det |
| 13 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | name | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | name | the woodland | like a bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in woodland=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/30/