Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 155
"No; do not do that," replied the nightingale; "the bird did very well as long as it could.
Who acts: you, nightingale, bird · What happens: not do, reply, do · To what, where: that · 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 (you, nightingale, bird), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nightingale | det |
| 12 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 long | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 did | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 could | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 could | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the nightingale | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | the bird | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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