Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 108

Now there was great sorrow, as the bird could only be allowed to play once a year; and even that was dangerous for the works inside it.

Who acts: bird, that · What happens: allow, play, be · To what, where: bird

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 (bird, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dangerous	cop
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorrow	amod
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 allowed	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 allowed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 allowed	nsubj:pass
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 allowed	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 allowed	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	aux:pass
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 was	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	xcomp
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 play	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 once	obl:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dangerous	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dangerous	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 dangerous	advmod
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 dangerous	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dangerous	cop
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 works	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 works	det
27	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dangerous	obl
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 works	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	could · passive		the bird		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bird not said here		once property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	that		for the works inside sorrow; dangerous property	tree rules

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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