Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 185
The swallow sang, "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Who acts: swallow, Tweet · What happens: sing, come
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 (swallow, Tweet), 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 swallow | det |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tweet | punct |
| 8 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tweet | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tweet | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tweet | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 song | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 song | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 song | nmod:poss |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tweet | conj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 story | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the swallow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Tweet and Tweet's song | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing | Tweet | 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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