Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 139

"You little gray Danish bird," said the canary, "you also have become a prisoner.

Who acts: You, little gray Danish bird · What happens: bird, say, become · To what, where: canary, prisoner · 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 (You, little gray Danish bird), 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	_	6 bird	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bird	nsubj
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
4	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
5	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 canary	det
11	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
15	also	also	ADV	_	17 become	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 prisoner	det
19	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bird in a quote		You		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	little gray Danish bird	the canary	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent canary=Topic
3	become in a quote	present · perfect	you	a prisoner	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

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