Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 22

"There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale," said the emperor; "they say it is the best thing in my large kingdom.

Who acts: wonderful bird, emperor, lords, bird · What happens: be, mention, call, say · To what, where: wonderful bird, nightingale, best thing, large kingdom · 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 (wonderful bird, emperor, lords, 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 wonderful	advmod
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
8	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bird	acl
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 mentioned	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mentioned	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 nightingale	det
13	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 emperor	det
18	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thing	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thing	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kingdom	nmod:poss
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 kingdom	amod
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thing	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a wonderful bird		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mention speech: other in a quote	participle		a wonderful bird not said here	here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	call in a quote	participle		a nightingale		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the emperor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	lords = lord			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	bird	the best thing	my large kingdom	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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