Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 34
There was a great inquiry about this wonderful nightingale, whom all the world knew, but who was unknown to the court.
Who acts: great inquiry, world · What happens: be, know · To what, where: wonderful nightingale
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 (great inquiry, world), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 inquiry | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inquiry | amod |
| 5 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 nightingale | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 nightingale | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nightingale | amod |
| 9 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inquiry | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 knew | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 world | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unknown | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 unknown | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 unknown | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 unknown | cop |
| 20 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 court | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 court | det |
| 23 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unknown | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great inquiry about this wonderful nightingale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | all world | this wonderful nightingale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | to the court; unknown property | 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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