Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 103

One evening, when the artificial bird was singing its best, and the emperor lay in bed listening to it, something inside the bird sounded "whizz."

Who acts: artificial bird, emperor, bird · What happens: sing, lie, listen, sound · To what, where: bed, zi, whizz

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (artificial bird, emperor, bird), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 best	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 singing	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 singing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 best	csubj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 best	nmod:poss
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 emperor	det
15	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 best	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
19	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lay	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listening	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 something	punct
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 best	appos
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	27 sounded	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sounded	nsubj
27	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 something	acl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 sounded	punct
29	whizz	whizz	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sounded	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 something	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 best	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the artificial bird				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	lie	past	the emperor			bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	listen	gerund	the emperor not said here		zi		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
4	sound	past	the bird	whizz			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whizz=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: «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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