Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 108
The clerk, or as the lady called him the field-bird, was placed in a little cage close to the canary, and not far from the parrot.
Who acts: lady · What happens: call, place · To what, where: screamer, clerk, little cage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lady), 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 clerk | det |
| 2 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bird | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bird | cc |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bird | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bird | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 field | punct |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clerk | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 clerk | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux:pass |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cage | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cage | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cage | amod |
| 20 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cage | amod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 canary | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 canary | det |
| 24 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 close | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 parrot | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 parrot | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 far | advmod |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 parrot | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 parrot | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 parrot | det |
| 31 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the lady | screamer | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the clerk or the field bird | a little cage | from the parrot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cage=Destination |
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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