Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 11

Then they would hear it again, and exclaim "Oh, how beautiful is the nightingale's song!"

Who acts: trees · What happens: hear, exclaim, be · To what, where: bird, beautiful song · 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 (trees), 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	4 hear	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaim	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 exclaim	cc
9	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 song	punct
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 song	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 song	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 song	amod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 song	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nightingale	det
17	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 song	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 nightingale	case
19	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaim	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 song	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 song	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	would	trees = tree	bird	then; again	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	exclaim speech: express	present	trees = tree not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		the nightingale's beautiful song		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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