Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 9
They heard the dying nightingale sing; it was no false prophet, but a harbinger of fortune.
Who acts: mothers, sing · What happens: hear, die, be, harbinger · To what, where: dying nightingale sing, false prophet, 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 (mothers, sing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sing | det |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sing | amod |
| 5 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | compound |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 prophet | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prophet | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prophet | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 prophet | det |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prophet | amod |
| 12 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 harbinger | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 harbinger | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 harbinger | det |
| 16 | harbinger | harbinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fortune | case |
| 18 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 harbinger | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | mothers = mother | the dying nightingale sing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | sing | no false prophet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | harbinger | fortune | nom harbinger «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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