Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 144

The canary-bird fluttered in his cage, and the parrot flapped his wings and cried, "Let us be men;" the poor clerk, in the most deadly terror, flew through the window, over the houses, and through the streets, till at length he was obliged to seek a resting-place.

Who acts: canary bird, men · What happens: flutter, flap, cry, let, be, fly · To what, where: canary bird, cage, wings, us, window, man · 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 (canary bird, men), 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	4 bird	det
2	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 canary	punct
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flapped	nsubj
5	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bird	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cage	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cage	nmod:poss
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fluttered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flapped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flapped	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parrot	det
12	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flapped	nsubj
13	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wings	nmod:poss
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flapped	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cried	cc
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flapped	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
20	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Let	obj
22	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Let	xcomp
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 be	nsubj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 clerk	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 clerk	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clerk	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clerk	amod
28	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flapped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 terror	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 terror	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 terror	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 deadly	advmod
33	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 terror	amod
34	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clerk	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flew	punct
36	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flapped	parataxis
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 window	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flew	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 houses	punct
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 houses	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 houses	det
43	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flew	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 obliged	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 obliged	cc
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 streets	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 streets	det
48	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 obliged	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 streets	punct
50	till	till	ADP	_	52 length	case
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 length	case
52	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 obliged	obl
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 obliged	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 obliged	aux:pass
55	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flapped	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 seek	mark
57	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 obliged	xcomp
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 place	det
59	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 place	compound
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 resting	punct
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 seek	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 flapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter	participle		the canary bird not said here	cat's cage			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location
2	flap	past	the canary bird	cat's wings			the poor clerk and the deadly terror obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	the canary bird not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
5	be in a quote	infinitive	men					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly	past			the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
7	oblige	past · passive		man	the streets	till length		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
8	seek	to-infinitive		a resting place				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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