Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 39
He sung old songs in a merry voice, and fired and fought as if he were something more than a man.
Who acts: Denmark · What happens: sing, fire, fight, be · To what, where: old songs, merry voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denmark), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sung | nsubj |
| 2 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 songs | amod |
| 4 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sung | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fired | cc |
| 11 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sung | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fought | cc |
| 13 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fired | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 something | case |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 something | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 something | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 something | cop |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 fought | obl |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 more | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Denmark | old songs | a merry voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | fire | past | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fight | past | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Denmark | as something | 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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