Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 9

And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in such a manner that it seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat.

Who acts: Prince, nightingale, it, sweet melodies · What happens: have, sing, seem, dwell · To what, where: nightingale, manner, little throat

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 (Prince, nightingale, it, sweet melodies), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
2	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 furthermore	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nightingale	det
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sing	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	aux
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nightingale	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 manner	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 manner	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 manner	det
16	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sing	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 seemed	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	advcl
20	as	as	ADV	_	19 seemed	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 dwelt	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 melodies	det
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 melodies	amod
24	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dwelt	nsubj
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seemed	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 throat	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throat	nmod:poss
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 throat	amod
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwelt	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Prince	a nightingale		furthermore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Patient
2	sing speech: express	could	a nightingale		such manner		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	dwell	past	all sweet melodies		name's little throat		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in throat=Location

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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