Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 6
From the topmost branches of the firs, where he has built his nest, the tiny greenfinch sings his little song.
Who acts: flaming, tiny greenfinch · What happens: build, sing · To what, where: nest, little song, topmost branches
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flaming, tiny greenfinch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 branches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 branches | det |
| 3 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 branches | amod |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 firs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 firs | det |
| 7 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 branches | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 built | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 built | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 built | aux |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 firs | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sings | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 greenfinch | det |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 greenfinch | amod |
| 18 | greenfinch | greenfinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sings | nsubj |
| 19 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 song | amod |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sings | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 branches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · perfect | flaming | flaming's nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | the tiny greenfinch | flaming's little song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | flaming | 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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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