English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 52
Sing it, sweet bird, again.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sing · To what, where: song
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 again | punct |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Sing | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | imperative | you not said here | song | again | sweet bird obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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