Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 54
"Shall I sing once more before the emperor?" asked the nightingale, who thought he was present.
Who acts: nightingale, emperor · What happens: sing, ask, think, be · 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 (nightingale, 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 | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | INTJ | _ | 4 sing | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sing | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nightingale | det |
| 14 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nightingale | acl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 present | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 present | cop |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | the nightingale = nightingale | before the emperor | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before emperor=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the nightingale | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the nightingale | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | emperor | present property | tree rules |
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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