Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 139
So Death gave up each of these treasures for a song; and the nightingale continued her singing.
Who acts: Death, nightingale · What happens: give up, continue, sing · To what, where: each, song
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 (Death, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 treasures | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 treasures | det |
| 8 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 each | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treasures | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 continued | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nightingale | det |
| 15 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continued | nsubj |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 continued | obj |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 continued | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Death | each | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Source | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the nightingale | song | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the nightingale not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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