Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 90

I am thankful that none of my children will ever be birds, for they can do nothing but cry, 'Tweet, tweet,' and always die of hunger in the winter."

Who acts: I, none · What happens: be, do, die · To what, where: birds, nothing

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 (I, none), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thankful	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	cop
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 do	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 none	nmod
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 birds	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 birds	cop
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 do	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thankful	advcl
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 do	obj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cry	cc
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 '	punct
22	'	's	PART	_	3 thankful	case
23	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 '	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tweet	punct
25	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Tweet	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tweet	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 tweet	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 die	cc
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 die	advmod
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thankful	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 hunger	case
32	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 die	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 winter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 winter	det
35	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 die	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			thankful property	tree rules
2	is a	infinitive		birds	ever		tree rules
3	do	can · future	none	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	die	infinitive	I not said here		winter	of hunger; always property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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