Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 35

At last they met with a poor little girl in the kitchen, who said, "Oh, yes, I know the nightingale quite well; indeed, she can sing.

Who acts: books, kitchen, nightingale · What happens: meet, say, know, sing · To what, where: last, nightingale · 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 (books, kitchen, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 girl	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kitchen	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 know	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Oh	punct
20	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 Oh	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Oh	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nightingale	det
25	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 know	obj
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 know	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sing	punct
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 sing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 indeed	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sing	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sing	aux
33	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	books = book		last	with a poor little girl; in the kitchen	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with girl=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the kitchen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the kitchen = kitchen	the nightingale		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express in a quote	can	nightingale			indeed property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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