Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 55

The wood-pigeons cooed as if to explain the feelings of the tree, and the cuckoo called out to tell him how many summer days he had yet to live.

Who acts: cuckoo · What happens: coo, explain, call out, tell, have, live · To what, where: wood pigeons, feelings, cuckoo, many summer days · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cuckoo), 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 pigeons	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pigeons	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 called	nsubj
5	cooed	coo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pigeons	acl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 explain	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 explain	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 explain	mark
9	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cooed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feelings	det
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 explain	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feelings	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cuckoo	det
18	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	nsubj:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 called	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 called	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
26	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 days	compound
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 days	acl:relcl
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 live	mark
32	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 yet	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	coo	participle		the wood pigeons not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		the feelings of the tree			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic
3	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		the wood pigeons			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			cuckoo	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	have	past	cuckoo	many summer days not said here		yet	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient
6	live	to-infinitive	cuckoo not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «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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