Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 16
But when he came to the words, "the nightingale is the most beautiful of all," he exclaimed, "What is this?
Who acts: poetry, nightingale · What happens: come, be, exclaim · To what, where: words, this · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 exclaimed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nightingale | det |
| 11 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beautiful | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 exclaimed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 21 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 this | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 this | punct |
| 24 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 this | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 this | cop |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 exclaimed | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | poetry | the words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to word=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the nightingale | of all; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | poetry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules |
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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