Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 79
Tiny was obliged to sing to him, "Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home," and many other pretty songs.
What happens: oblige, sing, fly away · To what, where: Tiny, Lady bird, neighbor · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sing | mark |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lady | punct |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bird | punct |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bird | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fly | punct |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sing | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 fly | advmod |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 fly | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 songs | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 songs | amod |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 songs | amod |
| 26 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 songs | amod |
| 27 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obliged | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Tiny | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | Lady bird and lady bird | neighbor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fly away in a quote | infinitive | away, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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