Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 135
Outside, on the bough of a tree, sat the living nightingale.
What happens: sit · To what, where: living nightingale, bough
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: 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 | Outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Outside | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bough | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bough | det |
| 5 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bough | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bough | punct |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nightingale | det |
| 12 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nightingale | amod |
| 13 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the living nightingale | the bough of a tree | outside property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Theme on bough=Location |
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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