Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 82
But he warned them not to be alarmed at the sight of a dead bird which lay in the passage.
Who acts: neighbor, dead bird · What happens: warn, not alarm, lie, sight · To what, where: legs, sight, passage, dead bird · 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: who acts (neighbor, dead bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 warned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warned | nsubj |
| 3 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warned | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 alarmed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 alarmed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 8 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 warned | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sight | det |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alarmed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bird | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 passage | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 passage | det |
| 20 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | neighbor | legs = leg | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not alarm | to-infinitive · passive | the sight of a dead bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | a dead bird | the passage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight | a dead bird | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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