Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 16
And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise good fortune.
Who acts: caravan, nightingale · What happens: listen, seem, promise, sing · To what, where: good fortune
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan, nightingale), 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 | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 caravan | det |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 listened | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 song | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nightingale | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nightingale | det |
| 12 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 song | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 promise | mark |
| 17 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 promise | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the caravan | pleased property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the nightingale | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | the nightingale not said here | good fortune | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | the nightingale | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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: «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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