Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 57

All the birds who had sung to her so sweetly were flown away, and the trees and the flowers had withered.

Who acts: birds · What happens: sing, fly away, wither · To what, where: Tiny, birds, trees

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 (birds), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 birds	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flown	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sung	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 birds	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sweetly	advmod
10	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	6 sung	advmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flown	aux:pass
12	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 flown	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 withered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 withered	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 withered	nsubj:pass
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trees	conj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 withered	aux
22	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 flown	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 flown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · perfect	all birds		Tiny	sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	fly away	past · passive		all birds		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	wither	past · perfect · passive		the trees and the flowers			tree rules

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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