Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 46

"No, those are frogs," said the little maiden; "but I think we shall soon hear her now:" and presently the nightingale began to sing.

Who acts: frogs, we, nightingale · What happens: be, say, think, hear, begin, sing · To what, where: frogs, little maiden, girl · 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 (frogs, we, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 frogs	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 frogs	det
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 frogs	cop
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frogs	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 frogs	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maiden	amod
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 think	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hear	advmod
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	obj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 hear	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
27	presently	presently	ADV	_	30 began	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nightingale	det
29	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 think	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sing	mark
32	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		that frogs			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	that frogs	the little maiden			tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	that frogs = frog				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hear in a quote	shall	we	girl	now	soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	begin	past	the nightingale			presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the nightingale not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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