Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 39

So she went into the wood where the nightingale sang, and half the court followed her.

Who acts: nightingale, court · What happens: go, sing, follow · To what, where: wood, 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 (nightingale, court), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 sang	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nightingale	det
9	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	nsubj
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wood	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 followed	cc
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 court	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 followed	nsubj
16	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 followed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	nightingale		the wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	sing speech: express	past	the nightingale			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	past	half court	nightingale		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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