Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 51
"With the greatest pleasure," said the nightingale, and began to sing most delightfully.
Who acts: greatest pleasure · What happens: say, begin, sing · To what, where: 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 (greatest pleasure), 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 | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pleasure | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 pleasure | amod |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nightingale | det |
| 10 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sing | mark |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 delightfully | advmod |
| 17 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 15 sing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the greatest pleasure | the nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nightingale=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the greatest pleasure not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the greatest pleasure not said here | delightfully property | 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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