Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 141

Fly out! they have forgotten to close the cage, and the window is open at the top.

Who acts: you, birds, window · What happens: fly out, forget, not close, be · To what, where: cage, top

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, birds, window), 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	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Fly	compound:prt
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgotten	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Fly	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 close	mark
8	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 forgotten	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cage	det
10	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 open	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 open	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 open	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 open	cop
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fly	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 open	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly out	imperative	you not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	present · perfect	birds = bird				tree rules
3	not close	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	the cage			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
4	is	present	the window		the top	open 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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