Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 113
"They were wild birds," answered the parrot, "and totally uneducated.
Who acts: depths, wild birds · What happens: be · To what, where: wild birds, parrot
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 (depths, wild birds), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 birds | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 birds | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 birds | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 birds | amod |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 parrot | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 birds | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 birds | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 parrot | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 parrot | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 parrot | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uneducated | cc |
| 14 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 15 uneducated | advmod |
| 15 | uneducated | uneducated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parrot | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 parrot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | depths = depth | wild birds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | wild birds | the parrot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | wild birds not said here | totally property | tree rules |
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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