Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 50
"Little nightingale," cried the girl, raising her voice, "our most gracious emperor wishes you to sing before him."
Who acts: Little nightingale, gracious emperor · What happens: cry, raise, wish, sing · To what, where: girl, voice, you · 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 (Little nightingale, gracious emperor), 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 | _ | 3 nightingale | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nightingale | amod |
| 3 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nightingale | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nightingale | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 raising | punct |
| 10 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raising | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wishes | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wishes | punct |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 emperor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 gracious | advmod |
| 17 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 emperor | amod |
| 18 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wishes | nsubj |
| 19 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sing | mark |
| 22 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wishes | xcomp |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wishes | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Little nightingale | the girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | Little nightingale not said here | girl's voice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | our gracious emperor | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | our gracious emperor not said here | before emperor | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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