Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 120
"Tweet, tweet," sang the bird, as he flew out into the green woods, and Tiny felt very sad.
Who acts: Tweet, Tiny · What happens: sing, fly out, feel · To what, where: bird, green woods
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tweet, Tiny), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 2 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tweet | punct |
| 4 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tweet | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 flew | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woods | amod |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 21 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sad | advmod |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Tweet and tweet | the bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly out | past | Tweet | into the green woods result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Tiny | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/120/