Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 14

And those who could write poetry composed beautiful verses about the nightingale, who lived in a forest near the deep sea.

Who acts: poetry, nightingale · What happens: write, compose, live · To what, where: beautiful verses, forest

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 (poetry, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 composed	cc
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 poetry	det
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 write	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 write	aux
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 those	acl:relcl
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 composed	nsubj
7	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 verses	amod
9	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 composed	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 nightingale	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nightingale	det
12	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 verses	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nightingale	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	near	near	ADP	_	22 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sea	amod
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 composed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	could					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	compose	past	that poetry	beautiful verses		about the nightingale	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result
3	live	past	the nightingale		a forest	near the deep sea	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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