Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 136
She had heard of the emperor's illness, and was therefore come to sing to him of hope and trust.
Who acts: nightingale · What happens: hear, come, sing · To what, where: emperor
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 (nightingale), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 illness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 8 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sing | mark |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hope | case |
| 19 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 trust | cc |
| 21 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hope | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | nightingale | of the emperor's illness | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of illness=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | nightingale not said here | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | nightingale not said here | emperor | of hope and trust | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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