Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 137
And as she sung, the shadows grew paler and paler; the blood in the emperor's veins flowed more rapidly, and gave life to his weak limbs; and even Death himself listened, and said, "Go on, little nightingale, go on."
Who acts: nightingale, shadows, blood, Death · What happens: sing, grow, flow, give, listen, say · To what, where: life, weak limbs, little nightingale · 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 (nightingale, shadows, blood, Death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sung | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sung | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sung | nsubj |
| 4 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shadows | det |
| 7 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sung | conj |
| 9 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 paler | cc |
| 11 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 paler | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 flowed | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flowed | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 veins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 emperor | det |
| 17 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 veins | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 emperor | case |
| 19 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blood | nmod |
| 20 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 rapidly | advmod |
| 22 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 20 flowed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flowed | conj |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 limbs | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 limbs | amod |
| 30 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gave | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 listened | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Death | cc |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 Death | advmod |
| 34 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 listened | nsubj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 Death | nmod |
| 36 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sung | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 said | cc |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 listened | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Go | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Go | punct |
| 42 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | ccomp |
| 43 | on | on | ADV | _ | 42 Go | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 nightingale | punct |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 nightingale | amod |
| 46 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Go | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 go | punct |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 Go | conj |
| 49 | on | on | ADV | _ | 48 go | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sung | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | participle | nightingale | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the shadows | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | past | the blood in the emperor's veins | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the blood in the emperor's veins not said here | life | emperor's weak limbs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to limb=Recipient | |||
| 5 | listen | past | Death emperor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Death emperor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go on in a quote | infinitive | little nightingale | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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