Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 32

And then he sang his own melancholy song, and from that we have gathered this story, which they say is not true, though it's in print.

Who acts: Grasshopper, we, stories, story, song · What happens: sing, gather, say, not be, be · To what, where: own melancholy song, story, print · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, we, stories, story), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sang	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sang	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 song	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
7	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	compound
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gathered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gathered	cc
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 gathered	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 gathered	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 gathered	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gathered	aux
15	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sang	conj
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 true	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 say	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 story	acl:relcl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 true	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 true	advmod
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gathered	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 print	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 print	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 print	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 print	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 print	case
30	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 true	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Grasshopper	Grasshopper's own melancholy song		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	gather	present · perfect	we					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	stories = story	this story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	not is	present	this story				true property	tree rules
5	is	present	song		print			tree rules
6	sing		Grasshopper					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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