Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 19

So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.

Who acts: nightingale, one · What happens: come, sing, say, humor · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nightingale	det
3	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sang	cc
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 delightfully	advmod
9	delightfully	delightfully	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 say	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 first	case
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 say	obl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sang	advcl
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 say	obj
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anything	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ill	punct
20	humored	humor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 anything	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 humored	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the nightingale		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the nightingale not said here		delightfully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	could	no one	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
4	humor	participle			of nightingale	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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