Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 105

Polly did not answer a single word, he continued to swing proudly to and fro; but a beautiful canary, who had been brought from his own warm, fragrant fatherland, the summer previous, began to sing as loud as he could.

Who acts: Polly, parrot, beautiful canary · What happens: not answer, continue, swing, fro, bring, begin · To what, where: single word, beautiful canary, own warm fragrant fatherland

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polly, parrot, beautiful canary), 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	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	advmod
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 swing	mark
12	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 continued	xcomp
13	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	12 swing	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	12 swing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fro	cc
16	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 swing	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 canary	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 canary	amod
21	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 began	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 brought	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 brought	aux:pass
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 canary	acl:relcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	33 fatherland	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fatherland	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fatherland	amod
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fatherland	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 warm	punct
32	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fatherland	amod
33	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 summer	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 summer	det
36	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fatherland	obl:unmarked
37	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fatherland	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 canary	punct
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 sing	mark
41	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 loud	advmod
43	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sing	xcomp
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 could	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 could	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 loud	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Polly	a single word			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	continue	past	parrot				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	swing	to-infinitive	parrot not said here			proudly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fro	infinitive	parrot not said here				tree rules
5	bring	past · perfect · passive		a beautiful canary	parrot's own warm fragrant fatherland		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from fatherland=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	a beautiful canary				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	a beautiful canary not said here			loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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