Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 47

The swallows, who had not less than seven nests in his grandfather's house, flew up to him and his goats, singing, "We and you, you and we."

Who acts: swallows · What happens: have, fly up, sing · To what, where: seven nests, house, Rudy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows), 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	2 swallows	det
2	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swallows	acl:relcl
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 seven	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 less	fixed
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 nests	nummod
10	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grandfather	nmod:poss
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 grandfather	case
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 swallows	punct
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 flew	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 goats	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 goats	nmod:poss
23	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 him	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 singing	punct
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 flew	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 you	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 you	punct
28	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 you	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 you	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 singing	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 you	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 you	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 we	cc
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 you	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the swallows	seven nests		Rudy's grandfather's house	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
2	fly up	past	the swallows		Rudy		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the swallows not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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