Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 151
And as she sung, the emperor fell into a sweet sleep; and how mild and refreshing that slumber was!
Who acts: sleep, emperor · What happens: sing, fall, be, refresh · To what, where: sweet sleep, slumber
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 (sleep, emperor), 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 | _ | 8 fell | 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 | 8 fell | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sung | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sleep | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sleep | det |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sleep | amod |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 mild | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mild | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 mild | advmod |
| 16 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refreshing | cc |
| 18 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 mild | conj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 slumber | det |
| 20 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refreshing | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mild | cop |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | participle | sleep | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | the emperor | into a sweet sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the emperor not said here | mild property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refresh | gerund | the emperor not said here | that slumber | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slumber=Experiencer |
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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