Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 109

Then the music-master made a little speech, full of hard words, and declared that the bird was as good as ever; and, of course no one contradicted him.

Who acts: music master, bird, one · What happens: make, declare, be, contradict · To what, where: little speech, music · 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 (music master, bird, one), 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	6 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 music	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 speech	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speech	amod
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 full	punct
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speech	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 words	case
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 declared	cc
17	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 good	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 good	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 good	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 declared	ccomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 good	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 contradicted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 contradicted	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 contradicted	punct
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 contradicted	mark
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 of	fixed
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 contradicted	nsubj
33	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 contradicted	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the music master	a little speech	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
2	declare speech: other	past	the music master not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the bird			good property	tree rules
4	contradict	past	no one	music			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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