Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 12
Travellers from every country in the world came to the city of the emperor, which they admired very much, as well as the palace and gardens; but when they heard the nightingale, they all declared it to be the best of all.
Who acts: Travellers, emperor · What happens: come, admire, hear, declare, be · To what, where: city, palace, nightingale, garden
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 (Travellers, emperor), 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 | Travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Travellers | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 country | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 emperor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emperor | det |
| 14 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 city | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 admired | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 admired | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 admired | nsubj |
| 18 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 admired | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 palace | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 palace | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 admired | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gardens | cc |
| 28 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 palace | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 declared | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 declared | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 heard | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 heard | nsubj |
| 33 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 declared | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 nightingale | det |
| 35 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heard | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 heard | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 declared | nsubj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 they | det |
| 39 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 declared | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 best | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 best | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 best | det |
| 44 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 declared | advcl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 all | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 best | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Travellers from every country in the world | the city of the emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | the emperor | the palace and gardens | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Travellers = traveller | the nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | Travellers = traveller | garden | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Travellers = traveller not said here | of all; good 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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