Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 32
I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has my highest favor; and if she does not come, the whole court shall be trampled upon after supper is ended."
Who acts: I, nightingale, my · What happens: hear, be, have, not come, trample, end · To what, where: nightingale, highest favor, whole court, supper
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 (I, nightingale, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nightingale | det |
| 5 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 here | cop |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 favor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 favor | amod |
| 18 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 come | advmod |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 trampled | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 court | det |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 court | amod |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trampled | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 trampled | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 trampled | aux:pass |
| 32 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 come | parataxis |
| 33 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 37 ended | mark |
| 34 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 37 ended | mark |
| 35 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 ended | aux:pass |
| 37 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 trampled | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | future | I | the nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | must | nightingale | evening | here property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | nightingale | my highest favor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not come a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | nightingale | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | trample | shall · passive | the whole court | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | end | present · passive | supper | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | favor | my | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=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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