Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 107

Then they sent for a watchmaker; and, after a great deal of talking and examination, the bird was put into something like order; but he said that it must be used very carefully, as the barrels were worn, and it would be impossible to put in new ones without injuring the music.

Who acts: wheels, talking, watchmaker, barrels · What happens: send, put, say, use, be, injure · To what, where: bird, something, order, music, talking · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wheels, talking, watchmaker, barrels), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 watchmaker	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 watchmaker	det
6	watchmaker	watchmaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deal	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 deal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 talking	case
15	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deal	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 examination	cc
17	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talking	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux:pass
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 talking	acl
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 something	case
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 put	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 order	case
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 something	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 used	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj:pass
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 used	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 used	aux:pass
35	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 said	ccomp
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 carefully	advmod
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	35 used	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 worn	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 worn	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 barrels	det
41	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 worn	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 worn	cop
43	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 used	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 impossible	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 impossible	cc
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 impossible	expl
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 impossible	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 impossible	cop
49	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 put	mark
51	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 impossible	csubj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 ones	case
53	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 ones	amod
54	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 put	obl
55	without	without	SCONJ	_	56 injuring	mark
56	injuring	injure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 put	advcl
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 music	det
58	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 injuring	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	wheels = wheel			after a great deal of talking and examination; then	for a watchmaker	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive	talking and examination not said here	the bird	something			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	watchmaker					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	use	must · passive		order			carefully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	past	the barrels				worn property	tree rules
6	is	would	watchmaker not said here				impossible property	tree rules
7	put	to-infinitive					in new ones	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination
8	injure	gerund		the music				tree rules
9	deal			talking and examination				nom deal «act 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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